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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 5998

Regex to parse artist and title from a file

I have the following file:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:36,Armand van Helden Featuring La Rok - Let Me Lead You
C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\Armand van Helden Featuring La Rok - Let Me Lead You.mp3
#EXTINF:19,Ann Nesby - Loving is Really My Game
C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\Ann Nesby - Loving is Really My Game.mp3
#EXTINF:19,Thomas Toccafondi feat. Kaysee - I've Changed (Earnshaw & Jones Remix)
C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\Thomas_Toccafondi_feat._Kaysee-I've_Changed_(Earnshaw_&_Jones_Remix)-DUFF028-1(320k).mp3
#EXTINF:57,Terry Hunter feat. Terisa Griffin - Wonderful (Abicah Soul's Wonderful Remix)
C:\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\Terry_Hunter_feat._Terisa_Griffin-Wonderful_(Abicah_Soul's_Wonderful_Remix)-TB005-1(320k).mp3

I am trying to write a regular expression that will parse out artist and title into two separate groups so the first group would contain the artist:

Armand van Helden Featuring La Rok
Ann Nesby
Thomas Toccafondi feat. Kaysee
Terry Hunter feat. Terisa Griffin

And the second group would contain the title:

Let Me Lead You
Loving is Really My Game
I've Changed (Earnshaw & Jones Remix)
Wonderful (Abicah Soul's Wonderful Remix)

The parsed information should come from the part right after #EXTINF: followed by any number. I want to ignore the actual file name.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 877

Answers (3)

Toto
Toto

Reputation: 91428

/^#EXTINF:\d+,(.*?) - (.*)/

Artists are in group 1

Titles are in group 2

Upvotes: 1

Fabio Cicerchia
Fabio Cicerchia

Reputation: 679

artists:

/^#EXTINF:\d+,([^-]+) - /

titles:

/^#EXTINF:\d+,[^-]+ - (.+)/

Upvotes: 0

Paul W
Paul W

Reputation: 51

If all of the tracks have the same format (#, Artist - Track) then I would use find the '-' in every line, take whats before it as the #, Artist and whatever is after it as the Track. It would just be a simple -. Then you can do some processing on it to split it up. For the Artist you can use a lookahead/lookbehind or just a [0-9]+, then grab the rest of the line.

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 0

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