From 38a41b7a8c770a9b9b6cfdbe6c81604dadadce00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 01:47:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Markdown.pl: process "br" indicators at end of paragraph

Normally there's no point to a "<br />" tag at the end of a
paragraph as the end of the paragraph will force a break anyway.

Unless that "br" tag contains a "clear='...'" attribute.

Make sure that 3 or more spaces at the end of a paragraph actually
turns into a "<br clear='all' />" tag but at the same time make 2
spaces at the end of a paragraph just go away as it serves no
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
---
 Markdown.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Markdown.pl b/Markdown.pl
index bf20d72..ca39c66 100755
--- a/Markdown.pl
+++ b/Markdown.pl
@@ -1418,8 +1418,9 @@ sub _RunSpanGamut {
     $text = _DoItalicsAndBoldAndStrike($text);
 
     # Do hard breaks:
-    $text =~ s/ {3,}\n/<br clear=\"all\"$opt{empty_element_suffix}\n/g;
+    $text =~ s/ {3,}(\n|\z)/<br clear=\"all\"$opt{empty_element_suffix}$1/g;
     $text =~ s/ {2,}\n/<br$opt{empty_element_suffix}\n/g;
+    $text =~ s/ {2,}\z//g;
 
     return $text;
 }