Hello jgill!
You forgot to tell us, what you exactly want to achieve. Do you want to extract the lines with the chords? Try with regex: search with grep case sensitive: \s*([A-Z\dm]+\s+)+ Best greetings from Munich marek > On 2. Feb 2019, at 17:59, 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 > <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit > <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.
