[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by avantman42

I don't claim to be great at regular expressions, but I think this should work, and preserve any class/style attributes in the paragraph:

Find:

(<p[^>]+>)<\/p>(.*)

Replace:

\1\2</p>

I would explicitly leave out paragraph tags in the text body, as such:

(<p(?: [^>]+)?>)</p>((?:(?!</?p>).)+)

Using the power of negative lookarounds.