The write-ups for PerlMonks usually include code protected in the sacred <code> </code> tags, but sometimes one wants to quote a little code outside those nice barriers to badness. This tiny snippet of perl will remind the adventuresome but forgetful Monk of what the HTML entities for the two little troublesome characters [ and ] are.
#! /usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
print "The troublesome entities, irksome to Monks:\n  "
     , (  join " and ",
        map{
        sprintf qq{"$_" is safe as }.q{&#}.qq{%d;}, ord ;
           } qw/[ ]/  )
     , "\n"; 
__END__

=pod

Or as a one-liner:

  perl -e'
  print "The troublesome entities, irksome to Monks:\n  "
     , (  join " and ",
        map{
        sprintf qq{$_ is safe as }.q{&#}.qq{%d;}, ord ;
           } qw([ ])  )
     , "\n";
  '

=cut

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In reply to remind me again ... by Intrepid

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