Fiddle with for a bit...Notice in the thread MPasini had a pattern that
worked on your example. However I modified your example to include
possibilities that could arise...And I'm not sure if I have got all of
these.
Here is the example I came up with:
____
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 line 7 of a song
A
This is a line of a song
E
This is the 9th line of a song
B7dim
This is a line of a song aug
E A Am E
This is a line of a song dim
C D E F G A B C#m
A small flower
C D E F G A B♭ C
Am I going
______
Depending on the result you desire either replace or extract with:
^([A-G\s])(?(1)([A-Gm679#♭iu\s]+)$)
On Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 11:59:49 AM UTC-5, jgill 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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