Regex help needed

gandor62 · 11-01-2009, 05:55 PM

can any experts out there please help me with extracting series from a title

[Otherland 03]

I need to pull the series and series index and lose the [ ]

I can get the entire thing to series but cant work out how to seperate them

this is what I have to date

(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>.+?)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?

Gratefully appreciate help
Cheers
Tony

grimborg · 11-02-2009, 07:43 AM

I don't quite understand the question. What result do you expect?
e.g.
[Otherland 03]
series=Otherland
index=03
?

wygit · 11-04-2009, 10:27 AM

this is what I'm using... it requires the space-hyphen-space between author, series(if there) and title, but it will filter out the brackets

(?P<author>[a-zA-Z'. ]+?) - \[?((?P<series>[a-zA-Z' ]+) (?P<series_index>[0-9\.]+)\]? - )?(?P<title>[^\.]+).*

11-01-2009, 05:55 PM	#1
gandor62 Connoisseur Posts: 99 Karma: 14 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Brisbane Australia Device: iPod Touch, Ipad, Kindle 2	Regex help needed can any experts out there please help me with extracting series from a title [Otherland 03] I need to pull the series and series index and lose the [ ] I can get the entire thing to series but cant work out how to seperate them this is what I have to date (?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s(?P<series>.+?)(?P<series_index>[0-9])\s-\s(?P<title>[^_].+) ? Gratefully appreciate help Cheers Tony

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11-02-2009, 07:43 AM	#2
grimborg Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 5514 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Groningen, Netherlands Device: PRS-T1	I don't quite understand the question. What result do you expect? e.g. [Otherland 03] series=Otherland index=03 ?

11-04-2009, 10:27 AM	#3
wygit Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 112 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	this is what I'm using... it requires the space-hyphen-space between author, series(if there) and title, but it will filter out the brackets (?P<author>[a-zA-Z'. ]+?) - \[?((?P<series>[a-zA-Z' ]+) (?P<series_index>[0-9\.]+)\]? - )?(?P<title>[^\.]+).*

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