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 <joegille...@gmail.com <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? > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or need technical support, please email > "sup...@barebones.com <javascript:>" 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+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to bbe...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > . > 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.
