I'm sorry to come with a basic elisp question, once again.
I continue to work on this citation stuff. Currently, I can get html back from Zotero in a form like this:
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<div class="csl-entry">Broder, John M., and Ian Urbina. “All Eyes Turn to Virginia Senate Race.” <i>The New York Times</i>, November 9, 2006, sec. /. <a href="
http://hostname/url.">
http://hostname/url.</a></div>
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Note the final "." in the href -- this is a bug in the citeproc-js citation engine (I think).
So, I would like to do some postprocessing and just remove the final ".". But it's not obvious to me how to do that. I feel like it should be! And that for an editor, emacs makes it awfully hard to match patterns & edit strings. But I think that's partly because I simply understand lisp so poorly.
If someone could show me how to do this, nad somehow along hte way make me understand hte basic principles involved so I can start to teach myself better... well, I would appreciate it.