ABC Transcription Tools - Extracting All the Tune Titles using Find and Replace in the Quick Editor
Here's a demo of how to extract all the titles for a large set of tunes using the "Find and Replace" feature.
I'm using the "Quick Editor" at:
https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/abc...
for this since we are only working with the ABC text itself and we don't care about drawing the tunes. The Quick Editor is perfect for this kind of thing.
1) Launch the "Quick Editor" at:
https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/abc...
and open the file containing your ABC tunes.
2) Open up "Find and Replace" (either via CMD-F (Mac), Ctrl-F (Windows) or from the "Hamburger Menu").
3) Check the "Match using regular expression" checkbox.
4) Enter the following into the find box:
^(?!T:).*$
Leave the "Replace with" box blank.
5) Click "Replace All"
All the text except for the T: tags will be deleted
Don't close the "Find and Replace" dialog.
6) Enter the following into the find box:
^\s*
Leave the "Replace with" box blank.
7) Click "Replace All"
All the extra lines will be deleted leaving just the T: tags.
Don't close the "Find and Replace" dialog
8) Enter the following into the find box:
^T:\s*(.*)
9) Enter the following into the "Replace with" box:
$1
Do not put anything else in the "Replace with" box after this, don't press Enter, just type these two characters.
10) Click "Replace All"
This will strip away the T: tag text and leave just the titles.
11) Select all the titles from the editor using either CMD-A (Mac) or Ctrl-A (Windows) to select all the text
12) Copy the title text to the clipboard using CMD-C (Mac) or Ctrl-C (Windows)
13) Open your text editor or wherever you want the title list and paste the text.
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