From: Tim Greer <tim@...>
Date: 2008-12-27T02:25:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Trouble

Chris Hoeppner wrote:

> Hey!
> 
> I'm writing a little script to rename files with weird names but
> common bits to a common format. Here's the regular expression I use to
> extract the common data:
> 
> /.*s?(\d?\d)x?e?(\d\d).*\.(\w{3})$/i
> 
> It's meant to rename TV Show files, both video and subtitles. I'm
> having trouble making it match the first group however. One of the
> digits should be optional, so I stuffed a ? sign there. However, it
> only matches one digit, leaving strings like 12x14 with captures ["2",
> "14"].
> 
> I'm not quite sure if there's anything wrong with my expression there,
> but I'd swear it's the way to do it. Maybe you're able to see
> something I'm looking past.
> 
> Thanks!

.* should probably be set to non greedy .*?, so it doesn't grab things
you don't want.

/.*?s?(\d?\d)x?e?(\d\d).*?\.(\w{3})$/i

What exactly does the data you're pulling the digits and 3 letter file
extension from look like?
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