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 <joegillespie2...@gmail.com> 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 > "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. > 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 "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
