(I'd link to it, but Perlmonks' link syntax does not play nicely with fragments that contain square brackets.)

Here’s what I do: copy-and-paste the link from the browser’s address bar:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcharacter%5
+d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f
[download]

apply a few edits:

[doc://perlfaq4#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcharacter%5d-delimited-string-exc
+ept-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f]
[download]

and voilà:  How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside [character]?

Hope that helps,

and voilą: broken link

"doc://" is peculiar, see Re: how to do perldoc links with special characters (perlmonks faq2doclink.pl)

I use pmbk all the time

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This is what it alerts :)

[href://http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcha
+racter%5d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f|perl
+faq4 - perldoc.perl.org]
[download]

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-can-I-split-a-%5bcharacter%5d-delimited-string-except-when-inside-%5bcharacter%5d%3f

Well, it works fine for me in Google Chrome, so I didn’t think to test it in other browsers. :-(

Works fine also in Internet Explorer 11, but in Firefox 31.0 it just takes me to perlfaq4. I’m not sure if that qualifies as a broken link, so I’m guessing you are using yet another browser?

Thanks for the link. I don’t know what “pmbk” refers to (and Messrs. Google and Super Search have left me none the wiser).

Update: Corion suggests “pmbk” may mean “PerlMonks bookmark”, referring to the JavaScript snippet. Makes sense.

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Neat, thanks! I'd tried the HTML entities the Monastery usually requires for literal square brackets (which did not work), but for some reason I'd not thought of using percent-encoding. Another trick learned! (And who says you can't teach an old pony new tricks?)