I'm not sure why that's not working for you, actually... it looks like it would, from what I can tell, and from the little test I did.

But anyway, depending on how complicated your text is, you may need something more powerful than just a regex. Take a look at HTML::FromText, which formats your text into HTML. It can handle a lot more formatting issues than just paragraphs. 

use HTML::FromText;

my $str = <<TEXT;
Foo is on this line,
and bar is in this paragraph.

Baz is in a new paragraph.
TEXT

print text2html($str, paras => 1);

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The result: 
<P>Foo is on this line,
and bar is in this paragraph.</P>
<P>Baz is in a new paragraph.</P>

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If you decide to go with a regex, I've always just used 
$str =~ s/\n\n/<p>\n\n/g;
$str =~ s/\n/<br>\n/g;

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which first replaces double-newlines and makes them paragraphs, and then formats line breaks. Plus it keeps the newlines there as a visual distinction, in case anyone actually needs to *read* the HTML. :)

In reply to Re: ASCII to HTML by btrott
in thread ASCII to HTML by skazat

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