Regex for matching a music Chord
Change [
and ]
to (
and )
in the following lines:
String accidentals = "(#|##|b|bb)";
String chords = "(maj7|maj|min7|min|sus2)";
Otherwise you're just making character classes, so [maj7|maj|min7|min|sus2]
simply matches on the letter m
.
I'm guessing you also want to add an ending anchor $
? I see you had problems with that before, but that's probably because of the aforementioned issue.
Also, might you want (#|##|b|bb)
to be optional (i.e., with ?
: (#|##|b|bb)?
)?
Forgive the JavaScript, but on a purely REGEX point, this pattern seems to work. You didn't stipulate which numbers are allowed after which chord names but I've assumed 2 is allowed only after 'sus' and 7 only after 'min' and 'maj'.
var chords = "C#maj7 C##maj Bbmaj7 Abmin2 Cbmin Dsus";
var valid_chords = chords.match(/\b[CDEFGAB](?:#{1,2}|b{1,2})?(?:maj7?|min7?|sus2?)\b/g);