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remove_surrounding_p_tag.js
function remove_surrounding_p_tag(s) {
//converts '<p>xyz</p>' to 'xyz', good for showdown
return s.replace(/^<p>|<\/p>$/g,"");
}
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miebach commented Jun 14, 2010

When you call the showdown / markdown converter (http://github.com/kriskowal/markdown), it will surround the resulting code with additional <p>..</p> tags. If you want to remove them afterwards you can use this function.

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