Jekull markdown processing does not create hyperlink

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1

I am trying to create a simple website for documentation using github page using markdown documents.
The directory structure is,

root
 |-- index.md
 +-- _topic
       |-- doc1.md
       |-- doc2.md
       |-- ...
       +-- docn.md

The index.md file content,

---
title: TOC
---

{% for topic in site.topics %}
* [{{topic.title}}]({{topic.url}}] 
{% endfor %}

I was expecting the produced html will contain a list of hyperlinks since markdown uses []() for hyperlinks. Instead I see the following in Jekull generated index.html,

<ul>
  <li>
    <p>[doc1_title](/topics/doc1.html]</p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>[doc2_title](/topics/doc2.html]</p>
  </li>
  ...
  <li>
    <p>[docn_title](/topics/docn.html]</p>
  </li>
</ul>

Any ideas what am I doing wrong here?

2

you have an extra closing bracket at the end which should be a closing paren?

3

You are correct, many thanks. I had some other issues related to this, it was resolved from a posting I did in stack overflow, here is the link for the benefit of other newbies like me.