Find last </p> in file

[steve1040]

I have several webpages I need to insert text into.

How can I find the last </p> in the file and insert text before the last </p>

So find
last instance of </p>

Replace with
****SOMETEXT \n </p>

[Bob Hansen]

I don't think you can do this with TextPad's RegEx, but you might make a macro that goes to the end of the file, do a Search, UP vs. Down, and insert your text.

Or use a macro to locate the last </p> as above, and add a unique character (~ ?) in front of or behind it.

Now you can use RegEx to locate </p>~

[ben_josephs]

You can do it in WildEdit (http://www.textpad.com/products/wildedit/):

Find what:
(.*)</p>

Replace with:
$1****SOMETEXT
</p>

[X] Regular expression
[X] Replacement format

Options
[ ] '.' does not match a newline character [i.e., not selected]

An interesting alternative is:

Find what:
</p>(((?!</p>).)*)\z

Replace with:
****SOMETEXT
</p>$1

[X] Regular expression
[X] Replacement format

Options
[ ] '.' does not match a newline character [i.e., not selected]

(The undocumented \z matches the end of the text. See http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/.)