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Problems with link parsing that has parentheses · 9

aeontech · 4454 days ago

Example: 1: link with anchor and parenthesesFraming_effect_in_psychology_and_economics) - should include the anchor tag, but does not

Example: 2: link with parentheses - should include final parenthesis in the link, but does not

The solution is to change the link matching regexp to balance the parentheses, instead of assuming that first closing parenthesis is closing the link.

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insomniasexx · 4454 days ago · link ·

Reddit had this same problem with links for 4 years before they fixed it. Every Wikipedia link was broken

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aeontech · 4454 days ago · link ·

It's an easy fix, I've done it before :)

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pschastain · 4453 days ago · link ·

Reddit hasn't fixed it yet for their markdown parser. I submitted a bug report about this a couple of weeks ago - http://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/ze1hg/markdown_confuse...

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mk · 4449 days ago · link ·

This should be fixed, at least in terms of parsing urls.

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It might be better to implement an escape character, but that might confuse some folk.

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aeontech · 4449 days ago · link ·

Example 1 is still borked (the anchor tag at the end of a parenthesized url is not included).

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mk · 4449 days ago · link ·

Ah, I see. Alright, I'll take a better approach.

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mk · 4453 days ago · link ·

Hey all. Yeah, this is a known #bugski that I always seem so push down the stack. I'll move it to the to the top.

cgod is right, I was traveling yesterday. I'm in Portland this weekend, spending some time with some good friends. I'll be around, but I've got some gaming and drinking that needs tending to, so I will be a bit sparse.