Another delimiter problem (?)

[streaky]

Posted the following text:

"On Tuesday last - the night of the rain (see thread) which the rev-erend will probably say is the cause of my problem<<<<<<<*challenge - I filled up on my way back from Zumerzet."

But without the '*', and this appeared:

On Tuesday last - the night of the rain (see thread) which the rev-erend will probably say is the cause of my problem<<<<<<<"

ie. the text after the last '<' and up to the newline character was lost.

Streaky