[Linux-disciples] Negative lookahead assertion

[Stephen R Laniel]

I want to find every find within my blog that contains a
<blockquote> without a <p> immediately after, and replace it
with <blockquote><p>. So (with some edge cases taken out for
simplicity) I thought I should be able to use this Perl
command:

s{<blockquote(?!<p>)}{<blockquote><p>}g

using the 'negative lookahead' operator that Adam and Ken
have mentioned on here before. But it's not working. Instead
it seems to be *erasing* everything after the <blockquote>.
Should I be doing something differently here?

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Stephen R. Laniel
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