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

[Andres Vargas]

dont overthink.
https://pypi.org/project/guessit/

$ guessit "Treme.1x03.Right.Place,.Wrong.Time.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi"
For: Treme.1x03.Right.Place,.Wrong.Time.HDTV.XviD-NoTV.avi
GuessIt found: {
    "title": "Treme",
    "season": 1,
    "episode": 3,
    "episode_title": "Right Place, Wrong Time",
    "source": "HDTV",
    "video_codec": "Xvid",
    "release_group": "NoTV",
    "container": "avi",
    "mimetype": "video/x-msvideo",
    "type": "episode"
}


On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Second method is easier.
>
> echo "Zero.Dark.Thirty.2012.720p.BrRip.x264.BOKUTOX.YIFY.mp4" | while IFS=.
> read -a x; do
>    y=
>    skip=0
>    for i in "${x[@]}"; do
>        case $i in
>            201[0-9]) y+=" ($i)" ;;
>            [0-9]*p) y+="-$i" ; skip=1 ;;
>            mp4) y+=".$i" ;;
>            *) if [[ skip -eq 0 ]]; then y+="${y:+ }$i"; fi ;;
>        esac
>    done
>    echo "y={$y}"
> done
>
> --
>
> On 2025-01-01 03:52, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
>
> From the top of my head,
>     - cut the string on ".2012.720p."
>     - change "Zero.Dark.Thirty" to "Zero Dark Thirty "
>     - change ".2012.720p." to "(2012-720p)"
>     - change "BrRip.x264.BOKUTOX.YIFY.mp4" to ".mp4"
>
> Or,
>     - cut the string on "." (period)
>     - loop through the substrings, and search for "2012" and/or "720p"
>     - reassemble parts
> --
> William
>
>
> On 2024-12-31 11:22, John Driezen 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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