Place glyph at end of paragraph?

I am putting together a cookbook. I'd like to put a glyph at the end of the last sentence for each recipe. (Basically, the final instruction.)
Is it possible to create a paragraph format that includes a glyph at the end? Or would I need to rely on GREP to search for the end of the last paragraph for each recipe, then insert the desired character?
If the answer is GREP, since it has been donkey's ages since I last used GREP regularly (and it wasn't in InDesign), is there a good resource for learning InDesign's GREP?
Many thanks to this wonderful community! I always get swift, excellent answers.

For the vast majority of the text, it already exists in FrameMaker 7.2. I am just porting it over to InDesign CS5. Since I am applying paragraph formats, I could, while in each recipe, go ahead and manually enter for the last paragraph for each recipe, but then if I am manually entering something, I might as well manually enter the glyph. I was hoping to avoid manual work as much as possible. :-)
I will experiment and report back. I may decide not to do the glyph, since I already have several other design elements for each recipe and I don't want the pages to look too busy. The end of one recipe and the start of the next is quite obvious anyway from the formatting of the recipe title paragraph.
Thank you both so much for your help!

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In a big text some paragraphs, already styled, need a consecutive numbering.
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Insert a cross-reference to the paragraph at the end of the text, with a format that captures its autonumber, and adds any ornamentation, like the square brackets in your example.
If the rightmost number must be positioned at the right margin of the numbered paragraph, no matter how long or short it is, or if it wraps around to new lines, add a right-aligned tab stop to the paragraph style, positioned at the location where you want the number to appear, and insert a tab character in the paragraph before the cross-reference.
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