Get First Paragraph

[Robert Harrison]

Trying to write a function to get the first paragraph in a string. My test 
string is:

                <h2>Remove the a header</h2><p>This is the marigold following 
the header. This is more.</p><p>This is another paragraph.</p>

The idea is two steps: Get everything to the LEFT of the </p> (this works), 
then get everything to the right of the first <p> tag... this is working 
strangely. Any thoughts? The trouble is in the Right extract. 

function getFirstParagraph(str) {
    str = trim(str);
    endTag = findNoCase("</p>", str);
    startTag = findNoCase("<p>", str);
    if (endTag gt 0) {
        endTag = endTag + 3;
        extract = left(str, endTag);
    } else {
        extract = str;
    }
    if (startTag gt 0) {
        startTag = startTag + 4;
        extract = right(extract, startTag);
    } else {
        extract = str;
    }
    return extract;
}
</cfscript>

<cfoutput>#getFirstParagraph(comment)#</cfoutput>


Thanks

Robert Harrison 
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