I need to identify chord lines and non-chord lines so that I can style them 
differently on a web page. Remember, I'm not just looking for [A-G] but A7, 
Am, A#, A♭dim etc

On Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 5:36:42 PM UTC, Marek wrote:
>
> 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] <javascript:>> 
> 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?
>
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