Regular Expression to capture the last
tag and replace it with some text

Question

I want to capture the final

tag in a string. Here's what I came up with:

 /(</p>)$/

Is this going to cause any problems in a typical html script that looks like this:

<p>Copyright 2010 &copy;</p>
<p>Sanscode</p>

It seems to work fine, but since i'm new to regex I was wondering if anyone had any caveats or things for me to note. I am using preg_replace().

Thanks

[Please don't parse HTML with regular expressions.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454) — Antal Spector-Zabusky, Dec 13 '10 at 00:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '10 at 00:17

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It would not match, if there are whitespace characters behind the last angel bracket.

answered Dec 13 '10 at 00:17

miku

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