That's a nice point. I threw this code together rather quickly, so I didn't think of all possibilities. That last regex could definitely use some beefing up and I think you've given it a good start. Thanks for the feedback!

Just a quick (untested) stab: 

s/<a href="[^"]+">([^<]+)<\/a>/[$1]/g;

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This is pretty generic and I would only use it in this context because there is an assumption that the data will be more or less valid. I think it would catch most cases. Also, I dropped a set of parentheses. I have no frickin' idea why I had them in the first place.

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: I've now tested this regex modification and it appears to work fine. I also realized a potential bug in the code that would be rare, but difficult to circumvent: if someone names a sub "amp" (or another HTML character code name) and tries to call the sub with '&amp;', this code will cheefully convert that to '&' and the resulting code will not function properly.

Update #2: buzzcutbuddha pointed out that the "Bug" I mentioned wasn't behaving quite the way I posted. It will only occur if someone names a subroutine "amp" and then posts the code without code tags. Highly unlikely, but a possibility.

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