[kwlug-disc] Regular Expression to Match Movie Titles and Year and Ignore the rest.

[Sean D]

I am a fan of RegEx but not even close to an expert.

The following expression is supposed to provide what you need:

^([^.]+(?:\.[^.]+)*)\.(\d{4})\.

Here's a breakdown of the regular expression:

^ asserts the position at the start of the string.
([^.]+(?:\.[^.]+)*) captures the title. It matches one or more characters
that are not a dot ([^.]+), followed by zero or more groups of a dot and
one or more characters that are not a dot ((?:\.[^.]+)*).
\. matches a literal dot.
(\d{4}) captures the year. It matches exactly four digits.
\. matches another literal dot.

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 11:29 AM John Driezen <jdriezen at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Can anyone give me a regular expression to turn the following filename
>
>   "Zero.Dark.Thirty.2012.720p.BrRip.x264.BOKUTOX.YIFY.mp4"
>
> into
>
> "Zero Dark Thirty (2012)-720p.mp4"
>
> 201[0-9] matches the year
>
> How do I match the title before the year, and ignore everything after
> the ".720p"?
>
> John Driezen
>
>
>
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