<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>i'm not sure why this is on [TxMt] but you can do it in two steps:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(assuming $_ contains the full body, newlines and all)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>## wrap any line that contains at least one non-whitespace character in <p>..</p></DIV><DIV> s{^(.*\S.*)$}{<p>$1</p>}mg;<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN># /m means let ^$ anchor to each line</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>## now replace consecutive paragraphs (no blank line) with <br></DIV><DIV> s{</p>\n<p>}{<br />\n}sg; # /s means treat it all as one string</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>that gets you:</DIV><DIV><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><p>This is just like what you'd get from Markdown, paragraphs separated by a blank line are wrapped in a paragraph tag. But I'd like to add a rule that looks for paragraphs that have hard-breaks in them, like this:</p></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<br /></DIV><DIV>consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do<br /></DIV><DIV>eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore<br /></DIV><DIV>et dolore magna aliqua.</p></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 14, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Oliver Taylor wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm using a perl search/replace string to re-format documents into HTML. I'm using the following for regular paragraphs:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">s/^[^\n\t\<].*/<p>$&<\/p>/g;</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That takes care of single-line paragraphs like this:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This is just like what you'd get from Markdown, paragraphs separated by a blank line are wrapped in a paragraph tag. But I'd like to add a rule that looks for paragraphs that have hard-breaks in them, like this:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">et dolore magna aliqua.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and wrap them in markup like this:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <br /></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do <br /></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore <br /></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">et dolore magna aliqua.</p></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The key is finding lines that end only to be followed by more lines in the same paragraph. My RegEx-fu is okay, but not great, so I've come close, but I can't get it right.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks in advance.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">______________________________________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For new threads USE THIS: <A href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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