The MusicXML I'm importing to Sibelius was created using PDFtoMusic Pro which did a great job in capturing the music/lyrics but missed on the chord symbols, often putting them in other lyrics fields. I've been able to strip the chords in Sibelius using the Advanced Filter, but I'd rather comment out all the XML files for the lyric tags except lyric number="1" in one go using Perl. The problem is the closing tags for lyric number="2", lyric number="3" and lyric number="4" are all the same, i.e. </lyric>.

Change this: 
<lyric number="1" justify="center" default-y="-78.58">
                    <syllabic>single</syllabic>
                    <text font-family="Times New Roman" font-size="10"
+ font-weight="normal" font-style="normal" xml:lang="en-gb">love</text
+>
                    <extend/>
                </lyric>
                <lyric number="3" justify="left" default-y="-162.40">
                    <syllabic>single</syllabic>
                    <text font-family="Krinitsky" font-size="13" font-
+weight="normal" font-style="normal" xml:lang="en-gb">ƒ5</text>
                </lyric>
                <lyric number="4" justify="right" default-y="-180.32">
                    <syllabic>single</syllabic>
                    <text font-family="Krinitsky" font-size="13" font-
+weight="normal" font-style="normal" xml:lang="en-gb">MI</text>
                    <extend/>
                </lyric>

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to this: 
<lyric number="1" justify="center" default-y="-78.58">
                    <syllabic>single</syllabic>
                    <text font-family="Times New Roman" font-size="10"
+ font-weight="normal" font-style="normal" xml:lang="en-gb">love</text
+>
                    <extend/>
                </lyric>
                <!--<lyric number="3" justify="left" default-y="-162.4
+0">
                    <syllabic>single</syllabic>
                    <text font-family="Krinitsky" font-size="13" font-
+weight="normal" font-style="normal" xml:lang="en-gb">ƒ5</text>
                </lyric>-->
                <!--<lyric number="4" justify="right" default-y="-180.
+32">
                    <syllabic>single</syllabic>
                    <text font-family="Krinitsky" font-size="13" font-
+weight="normal" font-style="normal" xml:lang="en-gb">MI</text>
                    <extend/>
                </lyric>-->

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Thanks!

In reply to MusicXML - find/replace by bobafifi

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