Hmm. What about removing the lines of the song instead? I’m sure an Applescript, awk or some other script can remove every second line, or just copy it to a new file, and then you won’t need to mess with regex’s.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560411/how-to-remove-every-other-line-with-sed https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/219859/how-to-delete-every-second-line-from-a-file Cheers, Dave > On 2-February-2019, at 11:59 AM, jgill <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been banging my head all afternoon trying to derive a regex the will > identify lines (of a song) that contains chords. > > eg > > E B7 E A Am E > This is a line of a song > E > This is a line of a song > B7 E E7 > This is a line of a song > A > This is a line of a song > E > This is a line of a song > B7 > This is a line of a song > E A Am E > This is a line of a song > > There could be spaces before or after the chord names and the only way I can > think to distinguish chords from regular words is that chords are likely to > have more than one space after them - or a newline > > I've got as far as [A-G][6|7|9|m|#|♯|b|♭|aug|dim] > > but the spaces and newlines have me flumoxed. > > Can anyone help? > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or need technical support, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
