in reply to Converting to html tags...

See Why I like functional programming and in particular the reply Functional take 2. You may also wanna checkout Re: Proper nesting of HTML to be enforced (the code), cause that's how perlmonks does it (of course you'd have to change the < > to [ ], but no biggie).

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