Search for end-of-paragraph before end of story? CS6

Hi,
Does anybody know of a way to search for a paragraph mark directly
before an end of story marker? I'd like to get rid of them, e.g., in
footnotes, where the last paragraph mark causes an unnecessary blank line.
Thanks,
Ariel

I found \z on Mike Witherell's great little chart at http://www.jetsetcom.net/useful-resources/indesign-cs6-resources.html
End of paragraph, at least in GREP is a location, not a character (the metacharacter is $) and can't be selected or replaced. Every paragraph has one. Paragraphs before the end of story also have a paragaph break, and that's what you are trying to remove at the end of your footnote story.
@David, Why bother withthe lookahead? \z is the location, so I would presume that the search would start at the end of story and look at the last character. That has to be faster than parsing every break in the paragraph to check for the end of story location after, and there's no possibility that you will actually delete the EOS since it can't actually be selected.

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