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Old 08-31-2014, 10:51 AM   #409
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Which would exclude paragraphs that had no attributes. Why not:
Code:
((Mr|Mrs|Dr|other)\.)</p>\s*<p[^>]*?>
Replace:
Code:
\1
(space after the 1)
instead?
Reread my regex. I did think of that.

Nitpick: I used an optional capture group, which includes a space (because as a general idea, I like demanding spaces after the tag name and before the attribute, to avoid matching the wrong tags) -- but your regex does not need a ? because the star already covers that.

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