Unable to use quoted values with colon in metadata

[benc-uk]

I want to wrap a value in my metadata with quotes so it can contain a colon, e.g.

---
name: "foo: bar"
---

However this is not parsed correctly, what I get back from a call to getMetadata() is quite bizarre

Trying to use HTML entities : in place of the colon only makes things worse

[benc-uk]

I've solved this by manually parsing with jsyaml and calling getMetadata(true) but would be good if showdown could return correctly parsed data back

[tivie]

I will have to look into this carefully, since the metadata module is a very simplified version of yml.

[AramZS]

I confirm this issue and would like to get it fixed as well.

[qualityshepherd]

same

[Ibadichan]

any updates?

[zzzzBov]

It looks like the regex used to parse metadata is greedily matching to the last colon when a non-greedy match should be used instead:

showdown/src/subParsers/makehtml/metadata.js

Line 31 in 9525598

content.replace(/^([\S ]+): +([\s\S]+?)$/gm, function (wm, key, value) {

/^([\S ]+): +([\s\S]+?)$/gm.exec('title: Lorem: ipsum')

produces:

[
  'title: Lorem: ipsum',
  'title: Lorem',
  'ipsum',
  ...
]

Whereas

/^([\S ]+?): +([\s\S]+?)$/gm.exec('title: Lorem: ipsum')
//       ^

produces:

[
  'title: Lorem: ipsum',
  'title',
  'Lorem: ipsum',
  ...
]