Re: reminder accidentals

[Benjamin Esham]

On Dec 24, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Ridwan Sami wrote:

> Benjamin Esham <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > does anyone know of a way to put the "!" at the end of notes in an
> > > lengthy .ly file quickly so that there are no syntax errors?
> >
> > What text editor are you using?  You (or someone else) could probably
> > write a regular expression to add "!" to all notes with accidentals.
>
> the notes in the .ly were exported by rosegarden 4 so they have varying
> numbers of apostrophes and commas and if i don't figure out how to use
> wilcards, i will be stuck with about 50 replacement operations, highly
> subject to error.
>
> did you have a specific text editor in mind that can do this
> efficiently?

Any text editor that supports regular expressions should work.  Make a
backup of your file, and then try playing around with this (you'll
probably have to change the syntax somewhat):

  s/\([a-g]\)\(es\|is\)\{1,2}\('*\)/\1\2\3!/g

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