# Another regex?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-regex/232939>\
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**Created:** [July 18, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-regex/232939 "2007-07-18T21:05:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-regex/232939/1 "2007-07-18T21:05:14Z")

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In (X)HTML, a \<p\> tag is essentially a block level element with padding at the top and bottom. So, I’m wondering, will a  
in a regex statement match both standard new lines and paragraph breaks(in the theory of an actual paragraph break), or if you would detect a "paragraph break with two consecutive newline expressions (

)?