Here's a little routine to wrap text in HTML:

$text = 
'Sunt autem quidam e nostris, qui haec 
subtilius velint tradere et negent satis 
esse.

Quid bonum sit aut quid malum, sensu iudicari.

Sed animo etiam ac ratione intellegi posse 
et voluptatem ipsam per se esse expetendam
et dolorem ipsum per se esse fugiendum.
';

$text = '<p class="first">' .$text . '</p>';
$text =~ s|(\n\n+)|</p>\1<p class="later">|g;

print $text;
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And it works just fine.

My next though was "I wonder if I can do both in one statment, and I tried various things, for instance:

$text = '<p class="first">' . ($text =~ s|(\n\n+)|</p>\1<p class="late
+r">|g) . '</p>';
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but they didn't work.

Any ideas? Can it be done in one statement?
--

($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthhrer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;
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