Find and replace ... HELP

Jin Wook Lee

hi,

I have a script file that contains many of these:

6
♪ All I need Is my buddies ♪

7
♪ High with a little help
from my friends ♪

I would like to edit something like this:
6 ♪ All I need Is my buddies ♪
7 ♪ High with a little help from my friends ♪

can anyone help me on this? Many thanks.

JW

PeterJones

I would do it in two stages:

FIND = (\d)\R+(?=♪), REPLACE = \1\x20 (which is the digit followed by a space), MODE = regex
FIND = (?s)\d ♪[^♪]*?\K\h*\R, REPLACE = \x20, MODE = regex

If some numbers have more than two lines of lyrics, run #2 a total of n-1 times to merge n-lines of lyrics per number.

regex gurus might be able to tweak that into a miracle single-regex, but this should be enough for your needs

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Jin Wook Lee

I did #1 and it worked but #2 does not work. can you double check #2? thanks!

PeterJones

@Jin-Wook-Lee said:

can you double check #2?

sure.

looks right to me.

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If it doesn’t work for you, maybe your data didn’t match your example, or something else is going on. Feel free to supply more details.