Question

I have the following paragraphs:

<p>This is a first paragraph.</p>
<p>This is a second</p>
<p>A third paragraph is here.</p>
<p>And a fourth</p>

The second and fourth paragraphs don’t have a full stop at the end of the sentence. Is there a way to select these paragraphs and then remove them with jquery/javascript?

Answer 1

$('p').each(function() {
   var par = $(this), text = par.text();
   if (text.charAt(text.length-1) !== '.') {
      par.remove();
   }
});

of course it requires no extra spaces (or other characters) between the dot and the end of the paragraph: in that case a regular expression check instead of charAt() could be a better choice