Ben Balter • 3/20/2011

Regular Expression to Parse Word-style Footnotes into WordPress's Simple Footnotes Format

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This technical article details the creation of a WordPress plugin that parses Microsoft Word's footnote format using PHP regular expressions. It explains the regex patterns to extract footnotes, build find/replace arrays, and integrate with Andrew Nacin's Simple Footnotes plugin to automate the conversion of pasted Word content into a clean, web-compatible format.

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