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escaping square brackets.

by kryten (Scribe)
on Apr 11, 2000 at 20:58 UTC ( #7322=monkdiscuss: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

How do you escape square brackets so that they show up in "normal" text? rather than making a link
I've found that you can put < Code> tags around the text but that is not always convienient.
I suppose you only really need to be able to escape a left square bracket due to the wonders of matching brackets ]
(as an aside: This links to 2 nodes that mortals do not seem to be able to view)

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RE: escaping square brackets.
by vroom (Pope) on Apr 11, 2000 at 21:04 UTC

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