Re: Adding text before last paragraph

On 27/08/07, Brian Rue <brianrue@gmail.com> wrote: > Dotan, try this: > > $text="<p>First paragraph</p>\n<p>More text</p>\n<p>Some > more > text</p>\n<p>End of story</p>"; > > $story = preg_replace('{(?=<p(?:>|\s)(?!.*<p(?:>|\s)))}is', > "<p>new > paragraph goes here</p>\n", $text); > > This matches a position that has an opening <p> tag (with or without > parameters), which is NOT followed anywhere in $text by another opening <p> > tag. The replacement string will be inserted at the matched position, which > will be directly before the last <p> tag. Not sure if this is the most > efficient regex, but it should get the job done. Let me know how it goes... > I'd also be interested to hear any comments on that regex's efficiency. > > -Brian Rue > Thank you Brian. This most certainly works. I'm having a very hard time decyphering your regex, as I'd like to learn from it. I'm going over PCRE again, but I think that I may hit google soon. Thank you very, very much for the working code. As usual, I have another night of regex waiting for me... Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/