Getting contents of square brackets with regex, including nested ones

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Published on 2010-04-05T18:40:31Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 18:43 UTC
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Is there any way to have this:

[one[two]][three]

And extract this with a regex?

Array (
    [0] => one[two]
    [1] => two
    [2] => three

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