diff --git a/extensions/markdown/src/documentLinkProvider.ts b/extensions/markdown/src/documentLinkProvider.ts
index 87595544fec30cdcc388c2f4bc0d335931dde1dd..2b2bde5d535948c7aa1a961110c8e114fa00a5ca 100644
--- a/extensions/markdown/src/documentLinkProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/markdown/src/documentLinkProvider.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 
 export default class MarkdownDocumentLinkProvider implements vscode.DocumentLinkProvider {
 
-	private _linkPattern = /(\[[^\]]*\]\(\s*?)(\S+?)(\s+[^\)]+)?\)/g;
+	private _linkPattern = /(\[[^\]]*\]\(\s*?)([^\s\)]+?)(\s+[^\)]+)?\)/g;
 
 	constructor() { }