Square brackets in links

[rdelepine]

Input:

[Your guide to \[[...] more.](http://www.php7book.com/)

[Your guide to [...] more.](http://www.php7book.com/)

[Your guide to [...]\] more.](http://www.php7book.com/)

Actual:

<p>[Your guide to [[...] more.](<a href="http://www.php7book.com/">http://www.php7book.com/</a>)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.php7book.com/">Your guide to [...] more.</a></p>
<p>[Your guide to [...]] more.](<a href="http://www.php7book.com/">http://www.php7book.com/</a>)</p>

Expected:

<p><a href="http://www.php7book.com/">Your guide to &#91;[...] more.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.php7book.com/">Your guide to [...] more.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.php7book.com/">Your guide to [...]&#93; more.</a></p>

Tested with Parsedown and ParsedowExtra

[praveenscience]

I guess I can fix this, but can we just make a simple replace like:

$str = str_replace(array('\[', '\]'), array("[", "]"), $str);

Does it work?

[erusev]

@praveenscience i don't think so, this would be in conflict with the specification

[praveenscience]

@erusev Oh okay... I didn't know that. Thanks for it.