User:Audacity/Regex

Useful regular expressions.

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Find and replace song titles

<Song> from <Album>

Step 1

Find:

\) ([^*=]*?) (from [^*=]*?\n)

Replace:

) "$1" $2

Step 2

Find:

(\* \(.\:.{2}\)) ([^"\n*]*?)\n

Replace:

$1 "$2"\n

Check over

\* \(.\:.{2}\) [^"]

Artist - Song

Fix multiple songs

Find:

(.*?)(,|\n)

Replace:

"$1"$2

Find:

\[\[(.*?)\]\](,|\n)

Replace:

"[[$1]]"$2

Fix headings

Find:

(={2,5})([^ =]{1}.*?)={2,5}

Replace:

$1 $2 $1