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Airikr
Airikr

Reputation: 6436

Extract the name of the movie or TV serie

What is the best solution to extract the name of the movie or TV serie from this path; E:\Dropbox\Hemsidor\collection-test\movies\avatar\documents\actors.txt?

I have checked explode but that solution are just annoying if you have to split every / from the path.

EDIT

The search can result in more than one hits. The results can be displayed as this:

E:\Dropbox\Hemsidor\collection-test\movies\avatar\documents\actors.txt
E:\Dropbox\Hemsidor\collection-test\movies\the_butterfly_effect\documents\actors.txt

How can I loop the titles?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 114

Answers (2)

kittycat
kittycat

Reputation: 15044

$string = 'E:\Dropbox\Hemsidor\collection-test\movies\avatar\documents\actors.txt?';

preg_match('/\\\movies\\\([^\x5C]+)/', $string, $matchs);

echo $matchs[1];

Upvotes: 2

Shiplu Mokaddim
Shiplu Mokaddim

Reputation: 57690

You dont need Regex for this simple search. In fact RegEx is slower for large scale data. Following code will do it perfectly

$string = 'E:\Dropbox\Hemsidor\collection-test\movies\avatar\documents\actors.txt?';
$a = explode('\\', $string);
echo $a[array_search('movies', $a)+1];

Upvotes: 1

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