bug in my [e2]ish autolinker code

[Matt_T_hat]

I recently uncovered a sample of VBscript ASP that does the one thing I never learned about - advanced string handling.

This one I was able to understand enough to modify it to work with a system I am building for my website. The code now searches the text given it and turns any word with a "[" or a "]" around it [like this] into a hyperlink with the word as a value.

now as I don't fully understand the code I think I need to remove the leading [. Could someone talk me through what I need to do so as I can carry on learning and understanding this?

Obviously a value has to be gained from somewhere but I am currently concerned only with the function.

<%
'***** BEGIN FUNCTIONS *****

Function LinkWords(strInput)
	Dim iCurrentLocation  ' The current position in the input string
	Dim iLinkStart        ' Beginning position of the current link
	Dim iLinkEnd          ' Ending position of the current link
	Dim strLinkText       ' Text being converted to a link
	Dim strOutput         ' Return string with the links in it

	' Start at the first character in the string
	iCurrentLocation = 1

	' Look for [ in the text from the current position to
	' the end of the string.  If we find it then we start the
	' linking process otherwise we're done because there are no
	' more ['s in the string.
	Do While InStr(iCurrentLocation, strInput, "[", 1) <> 0
		' Set the position of the beginning of the link
		iLinkStart = InStr(iCurrentLocation, strInput, "[", 1)
		
		' Set the position of the end of the link.  ie Find ]
		iLinkEnd = InStr(iLinkStart, strInput, "]", 1)
		
		' If we didn't find a ] then we link to the
		' end of the string
		If iLinkEnd = 0 Then iLinkEnd = Len(strInput) + 1

		' Take care of any punctuation we picked up
		Select Case Mid(strInput, iLinkEnd - 1, 1)
			Case ".", "!", "?", "]"
				iLinkEnd = iLinkEnd - 1
		End Select
		
		' This adds to the output string all the non linked stuff
		' up to the link we're curently processing.
		strOutput = strOutput & Mid(strInput, iCurrentLocation, iLinkStart - iCurrentLocation)

		' Get the text we're linking and store it in a variable
		strLinkText = Mid(strInput, iLinkStart, iLinkEnd - iLinkStart)
		
		' Build our link and append it to the output string
		strOutput = strOutput & "<A HREF=""" & "reader.asp?art=" & strLinkText & """>" & strLinkText & "</A>"

		' Some good old debugging
		'Response.Write iLinkStart & "," & iLinkEnd & "<BR>" & vbCrLf
		
		' Reset our current location to the end of that link
		iCurrentLocation = iLinkEnd
	Loop
	
	' Tack on the end of the string.  I need to do this so we
	' don't miss any trailing non-linked text
	strOutput = strOutput & Mid(strInput, iCurrentLocation)
	
	' Set the return value
	LinkWords = strOutput
End Function 'LinkURLs
'***** END FUNCTIONS *****


Dim strUnlinked ' The variable to hold out text to be linked up.


' Call our function and write out the results:
Response.Write LinkWordss(strUnlinked)
%>

the current result is that both [ and ] stay and the [ is used to make the hyper link. I need to know how I should remove the [ and ] all-togeather.