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halL — 2007-09-07T09:57:28

The solution suggested by Hoska results in XHTML-compliant code, but puts its output all on one line.
The following version puts line breaks to aid source readability.
It also puts a line break in if there is a single \r\n.
It is arguable whether any of these versions is the "right" solution; I suspect it depends on your circumstances.

Finally, note that the example on the page has a bug: the

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Daniel Stockman — 2007-09-06T16:24:07

Cfscript one-liner that does the job:

function FormatParagraph(txt) { return ('

' & ReReplace( ReReplace(
Trim(txt), '\r\n\r\n', '

', 'all'), '\r\n', '
', 'all') & '

'); }

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sthompson — 2007-04-10T10:23:03

Further, in regards to XHTML, the function only inserts opening

tags. There are no closing tags as required by XHTML.

Why does the function assume that single newlines aren't wanted? I think that single newline characters should be preserved, and replaced with
. Double newlines could be replaced with two
tags. That fixes the XHTML problem.

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rubblemasta — 2006-05-15T08:35:15

Or you can always wrap ParagraphFormat() in a Replace function to fix the rogue

and

instances.

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2006-05-07T20:26:35

For the

problem with XHTML, I used this work-around: Just replace the result from #paragraphformat(variable)# with #replace(variable, '

', '

', ALL)#

This is a hack of a workaround, but it solves the XHTML problem

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pete_freitag — 2005-04-26T13:50:10

Note that the ParagraphFormat tag inserts P tags not p tags, note the case. This function is not XHTML safe.