diff --git a/post2blog.sh b/post2blog.sh
index d467d96..0e8e963 100755
--- a/post2blog.sh
+++ b/post2blog.sh
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ if [[ ${_title} != 'Null' ]]; then
 		while read _oneline
 		do
 			#first get all hyper links, including websites, images and files. save them to a single string separated by whitespace
-			_link_string=${_link_string}`echo "${_oneline}" | grep -Eo "!?\[[a-zA-Z0-9 \-\_]*\]\([a-zA-Z0-9\\\./: \-\_]*\)"`" "
+			_link_string=${_link_string}`echo "${_oneline}" | grep -Eo "!?\[[a-zA-Z0-9 .-_]*\]\([a-zA-Z0-9_:/.-]*\)"`" "
 			echo "${_oneline}" >> ${_tmpfile}
 		done < ${_mfile}
 	else
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ else
 				_outfile_end=${_oneline:2}
 			else
 				#first get all hyper links, including websites, images and files. save them to a single string separated by whitespace
-				_link_string=${_link_string}`echo "${_oneline}" | grep -Eo "!?\[[a-zA-Z0-9 \-\_]*\]\([a-zA-Z0-9\\\./: \-\_]*\)"`" "
+				_link_string=${_link_string}`echo "${_oneline}" | grep -Eo "!?\[[a-zA-Z0-9 .-_]*\]\([a-zA-Z0-9_:/.-]*\)"`" "
 				echo "${_oneline}" >> ${_tmpfile}
 			fi
 		done < ${_mfile}
@@ -207,23 +207,32 @@ fi
 #combine output filename
 _outfile=${_outfile}${_outfile_end}.md
 
+#echo ${_link_string}
 #get link names from _link_string and save a string
-_link_names_string=`echo ${_link_string} | grep -Eo "\[[a-zA-Z0-9 \-\_]*\]"`
+_link_names_string=`echo ${_link_string} | grep -Eo "\[[a-zA-Z0-9 .-_]*\]"`
 #change whitespace in every link name into -
 _link_names_string=${_link_names_string//" "/"-"}
 #delete symbols \[ and \] in link names
 _link_names_string=${_link_names_string//[\[|\]]/''}
+_link_names_string=${_link_names_string//'.'/'-'}
 #convert _link_names_string to an array
 _link_names=(${_link_names_string})
+#for i in ${_link_names[@]}; do
+#	echo ${i}
+#done
 
 #get link addresses from _link_string and save a string
-_link_addresses_string=`echo ${_link_string} | grep -Eo "\([a-zA-Z0-9\\\./: \-\_]*\)"`
+_link_addresses_string=`echo ${_link_string} | grep -Eo "\([a-zA-Z0-9_:/.-]*\)"`
+echo ${_link_addresses_string}
 #change whitespace in every link address into -
 _link_addresses_string=${_link_addresses_string//" "/"-"}
 #delete symbols \( and \) in link names
 _link_addresses_string=${_link_addresses_string//[\(|\)]/''}
 #convert _link_addresses_string to an array
 _link_addresses=(${_link_addresses_string})
+#for i in ${_link_addresses[@]}; do
+#	echo ${i}
+#done
 
 #exclude http[s] links to get _copy_names and _copy_addresses
 #we use year-month to sort files by month
@@ -304,4 +313,4 @@ fi
 #check if the output file should be saved
 if [[ ${_savefile} == 0 ]]; then
 	rm ${_outfile}
-fi
\ No newline at end of file
+fi