regex is greedy

[andywebber]

It is sometimes useful to leave the old content in a page that is redirected (for posterity, for inclusion in search results, etc).

However, if the page includes any other markup which uses "~~" notation, the pageredirect plugin fails badly (generates a blank page). The reason is that the regex used to match "REDIRECT>page" is greedy; it should be lazy

Test case: page with:

  ~~REDIRECT>anotherpage~~
  ~~CLEARFLOAT~~
  ~~DISCUSSION~~

See "Tips" under https://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:syntax_plugins#patterns

Pattern should perhaps be something like (?:REDIRECT>.+?|^#(?i:redirect) [^\r\n]+), but I haven't tested this.

[ssahara]

Is this issue topic still open? I also suffering from mismatch of "REDIRECT>.+?", which matches other markup that uses "~~". Attempt to match pageid fails due to the greediness of pattern ".+?".

I would like to propose "(REDIRECT>.*?|^#(?i:redirect) [^\n]+)".