Need Regex Help

[randyharris]

The script below in the code box is from a locked thread so I had to start a new one.

Instead of how the example is done below, I would like to get a regex= line for shows the this format:

TV Show - SxxExx.ext

e.g.: Lost - S06E11.m4v

Thanks for your help.

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# regex to match job name to strip out show name, season number, episode number and episode name
# in multi part episodes (eg: Show - 1x01-1x02 - Episode), the first episode (1 in this case) is used
regex="^(.*) - ([[:digit:]])+x([[:digit:]]+).* - (.*)$"

[Camelot]

untested:

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regex="^(.+) - S([[:digit:]]+)E([[:digit:]]+).*$"

This will accept something of the format:
"Show name - SxxExx"
which should do the job for you. It will place the showname in placeholder 1, season number in 2 and episode number in 3.

hope that helps

[randyharris]

Thanks I'll give this a test.

untested:

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regex="^(.+) - S([[:digit:]]+)E([[:digit:]]+).*$"

This will accept something of the format:
"Show name - SxxExx"
which should do the job for you. It will place the showname in placeholder 1, season number in 2 and episode number in 3.

hope that helps

[doubledrat]

you might want to make it case insensitive with

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regex="^(.+) - [Ss]([[:digit:]]+)[Ee]([[:digit:]]+).*$"

[randyharris]

you might want to make it case insensitive with

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regex="^(.+) - [Ss]([[:digit:]]+)[Ee]([[:digit:]]+).*$"

Thanks doubledrat,

working on the same script - wonder if you could help with this one too...

(case insensitive would be best)

Here is the file name format:

"Formula1.2010.Australian.Grand.Prix.WS.PDTV.XviD-433.avi"

Where it is always going to be SERIES.YEAR.VENUE.garbage

More verbose - the start of the name to but not including the first period is the "Series", the 4 digits between the first and second period is the "YEAR", and between the second and third period is the "Venue"

Also need to figure out how put the three of those together to create the Episode name so that the name would be:
Formula1 2010 - Australia


Thanks if you or anybody can help.

[randyharris]

I took a stab at the regex command but it isn't working...

regex="^([a-zA-Z]+*)\.(20[0-9][0-9])\.([a-zA-Z]+)\..*$"

[doubledrat]

well, you can do what you've asked to do with

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^([\d\w]+)\.(20[0-9][0-9])\.(.*)$

which will match digits or letters, then a . then a year, then everything else

but what if you have something like

only.the.lonely.2009.blah.blah.blah.avi

I think you need to drop looking for the .

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^(.+)(20[0-9][0-9])(.+)\....$

this will give you

Formula1.
2010
.Australian.Grand.Prix.WS.PDTV.XviD-433

so you'd need to tidy up a bit

[doubledrat]

this might be better

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^(.+)(20[0-9][0-9])(.+?)([A-Z]{2,})(.*)\....$

will give

Formula1.
2010
.Australian.Grand.Prix.
WS
.PDTV.XviD-433

^ start of string
(.+) any char at least once
(20[0-9][0-9]) a year
(.+?) any char at least once (lazy)
([A-Z]{2,}) any uppercased word with at least 2 letters
(.*) anything else
\. a dot
...$ any 3 chars then the end of the string

you'll then need to remove dots from your strings and trim any leading/trailing spaces, but that should be good to go.

[randyharris]