Hi Vlad,
For some reason, I can't get BBEdit's Sort Lines... Using Search
Pattern to work, but this worked:
Step 1 - Reverse the sequence of each line's parts:
------
Find:
^([\*-]) ([^-]+?) - ([^\n]+)\n
Replace:
\3 - \2 \1\n
This yields:
The Beatles - Blackbird -
The Beatles - For No One -
Elvis - Hound Dog *
Melanie - I Don't Eat Animals -
...
Step 2 - Text -> Sort Lines with no specification, and get:
------
Adele - Someone Like You -
David Gray - This Years Love -
Ed Sheeran - Photograph -
Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud *
Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud *
Elvis - Hound Dog *
...
Step 3 - Restore the original sequence of each line's parts:
------
Find:
^([^-]+?) - ([^\*-]+?) ([^\n])\n
Replace:
\3 \2 - \1\n
And I think that gives you what you want.
On 12/13/17 at 8:46 PM, [email protected] (Vlad Ghitulescu) wrote:
I’ll correct this right now: I would like to sort alphabetically this
list of songs in regard to column 3 (where the title of the song
begins) (Thanks again, Chris! ;-)
- Blackbird - The Beatles
- For No One - The Beatles
* Hound Dog - Elvis
- I Don't Eat Animals - Melanie
- Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
- Let It Be - The Beatles
- Photograph - Ed Sheeran
* Same Mistake - James Blunt
- Someone Like You - Adele
* That’s All Right - Elvis
* Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
- This Years Love - David Gray
* Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
- Yesterday - The Beatles
- You Were Never Mine - Janiva Magness
* End Of The Line - The Traveling Willburys
- Handle With Care - The Traveling Willburys
- Hotel California - The Eagles
- Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles
- Mull Of Kintyre - Paul McCartney & The Wings
- Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
* San Francisco Bay Blues - Eric Clapton
- The Best Of My Love - The Eagles
- You Got It - Roy Orbison
* Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
* Babe I'm Gonna Live You - Led Zeppelin
- Blackbird - The Beatles
- For No One - The Beatles
- Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
* Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
* Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
- You Were Never Mine - Janiva Magness
- Yesterday - The Beatles
The - or * have a meaning for me but translate the same in Markdown.
They also mystify ;-) the normal sort: that’s the output after sort lines
- Blackbird - The Beatles
- Blackbird - The Beatles
- For No One - The Beatles
- For No One - The Beatles
- Handle With Care - The Traveling Willburys
- Hotel California - The Eagles
- I Don't Eat Animals - Melanie
- Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
- Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
- Let It Be - The Beatles
- Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles
- Mull Of Kintyre - Paul McCartney & The Wings
- Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
- Photograph - Ed Sheeran
- Someone Like You - Adele
- The Best Of My Love - The Eagles
- This Years Love - David Gray
- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
- Yesterday - The Beatles
- Yesterday - The Beatles
- You Got It - Roy Orbison
- You Were Never Mine - Janiva Magness
- You Were Never Mine - Janiva Magness
* Babe I'm Gonna Live You - Led Zeppelin
* End Of The Line - The Traveling Willburys
* Hound Dog - Elvis
* Same Mistake - James Blunt
* San Francisco Bay Blues - Eric Clapton
* Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
* That’s All Right - Elvis
* Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
* Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
* Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
* Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Regards,
Vlad
On 12 Dec 2017, at 21:37, Tom Robinson wrote:
Everything up to the song title is identical, so just do a
normal sort:
Select the text to sort… or no selection will sort entire document
Text > Sort Lines
Turn on Sorted lines replace selection, and turn off everything else.
On 2017-12-13, at 09:17, Vlad Ghitulescu <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, Tom!
Thanks for your reply!
The list is not sort by song title.
Regards,
Vlad
On 12 Dec 2017, at 21:13, Tom Robinson wrote:
Looks like it’s already sorted by song title, so assuming
you mean artist:
Text > Sort Lines
Turn on Sort using pattern
Enter search pattern of ‘ - (.+)$’ (without the
quotes). This ‘captures’ the artist name which comes
after a hyphen.
Sort by ‘All sub-patterns’ — the text you’ve just
captured within the brackets.
You can also issue a normal find using the same regular
expression (pattern), to see how that bit works.
Cheers
On 2017-12-13, at 08:46, Vlad Ghitulescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello!
I would like to sort alphabetically this list of songs:
• Blackbird - The Beatles
• For No One - The Beatles
• Hound Dog - Elvis
• I Don't Eat Animals - Melanie
• Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
• Let It Be - The Beatles
• Photograph - Ed Sheeran
• Same Mistake - James Blunt
• Someone Like You - Adele
• That’s All Right - Elvis
• Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
• This Years Love - David Gray
• Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers
• Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
• Yesterday - The Beatles
• You Were Never Mine - Janiva Magness
• End Of The Line - The Traveling Willburys
• Handle With Care - The Traveling Willburys
• Hotel California - The Eagles
• Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles
• Mull Of Kintyre - Paul McCartney & The Wings
• Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
• San Francisco Bay Blues - Eric Clapton
• The Best Of My Love - The Eagles
• You Got It - Roy Orbison
• Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
• Babe I'm Gonna Live You - Led Zeppelin
• Blackbird - The Beatles
• For No One - The Beatles
• Is There Anybody Out There - Pink Floyd
• Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
• Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
• You Were Never Mine - Janiva Magness
• Yesterday - The Beatles
in regard to column 3 (where the title of the song begins).
Could you please give me a hint?
Thanks!
Regards,
Vlad
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