if [[ ${globaldebug} == "true" ]]; then
  local debug=true
else
  local debug=false
fi

local content="${1}"
local modified_content=""
echo "${content}" | while IFS= read -r line; do
  if [[ ${line} == *"#link"* ]]; then
    if (${debug}) _msg debug "${0:t}_msg_1" " ${line}"
    local url_full=$(echo "${line}" | awk -F'#link ' '{print $2}' | awk -F'¤' '{print $1 "¤" $2}')
    local url_dest=$(echo "${url_full}" | awk -F'¤' '{print $1}')
    local url_txt=$(echo "${url_full}" | awk -F'¤' '{print $2}')

    if (${debug}) _msg debug "${0:t}_msg_2" " ${url_dest}"
    if (${debug}) _msg debug "${0:t}_msg_3" " ${url_txt}"
    local modified_link="<a href=\"${url_dest}\">${url_txt}"
    if [[ ${url_dest} =~ ^https?:// ]]; then
      modified_link+="<img class=\"exticon\" alt=\"External site icon\" src=\"/images/ext-black-top.svg\" width=\"12\" />"
    fi
    modified_link+="</a>"
    line=${line//"#link ${url_full}"/${modified_link}}
  fi
    modified_content+="${line}\n"
done
echo -e "${modified_content}"