diff --git a/tests/integration/check_doc_links.sh b/tests/integration/check_doc_links.sh
index 1803222..d16c605 100644
--- a/tests/integration/check_doc_links.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/check_doc_links.sh
@@ -100,13 +100,19 @@ extract_links() {
 
             gsub(/`[^`]*`/, "", line)
 
-            while (match(line, /\[[^]]+\]\(([^)]+)\)/, m)) {
-                print NR "\t" m[1]
+            while (match(line, /\[[^]]+\]\([^)]*\)/)) {
+                link = substr(line, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+                sub(/^\[[^]]+\]\(/, "", link)
+                sub(/\)$/, "", link)
+                print NR "\t" link
                 line = substr(line, RSTART + RLENGTH)
             }
 
-            if (match(line, /^\[[^]]+\]:[[:space:]]*(.+)/, ref)) {
-                print NR "\t" ref[1]
+            if (match(line, /^\[[^]]+\]:[[:space:]]*[^[:space:]]+/)) {
+                link = substr(line, RSTART, RLENGTH)
+                sub(/^\[[^]]+\]:[[:space:]]*/, "", link)
+                sub(/[[:space:]].*$/, "", link)
+                print NR "\t" link
             }
         }
     ' "$1"