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<blockquote data-quote="MJGraf" data-source="post: 1164686" data-attributes="member: 17886">As to the matching based on movie name, I have found at least one movie name that currently doesn't work.We use a regular expression on the full path of a movie file to match movie title and year. The regular expression we use is:[CODE](?&lt;title&gt;[^\\|\/]*?)\s*[\[\(]?(?&lt;year&gt;(19|20)\d{2})[\]\)]?[\.|\\|\/]*[/CODE]If you apply this to the following path:[CODE]\\BOOMER\Movies\#\1911 (2011)\abd-1911-1080p.mkv[/CODE](which you can test online here: <a href="https://regex101.com/" target="_blank">https://regex101.com/</a> )you can see that the movie name match is empty. This is because the title part : &quot;[^\\|\/]*?)&quot; is &quot;lazy&quot; and accepts zero characters. I first thought about making it &quot;greedy&quot; instead of &quot;lazy&quot;, but I suppose this is intentionally made &quot;lazy&quot; so that if there are two four-digit numbers starting with 19 or 20, we don't have any of them in the title and only the first one in the year.But admitting zero character titles doesn't make sense to me. If we replace &quot;*?&quot; with &quot;+?&quot; so that the title must have at least one character, the path above matches correctly. Regular Expression would then look like:[CODE](?&lt;title&gt;[^\\|\/]+?)\s*[\[\(]?(?&lt;year&gt;(19|20)\d{2})[\]\)]?[\.|\\|\/]*[/CODE][USER=48495]@morpheus_xx[/USER] : Any thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MJGraf, post: 1164686, member: 17886"] As to the matching based on movie name, I have found at least one movie name that currently doesn't work. We use a regular expression on the full path of a movie file to match movie title and year. The regular expression we use is: [CODE](?<title>[^\\|\/]*?)\s*[\[\(]?(?<year>(19|20)\d{2})[\]\)]?[\.|\\|\/]*[/CODE] If you apply this to the following path: [CODE]\\BOOMER\Movies\#\1911 (2011)\abd-1911-1080p.mkv[/CODE] (which you can test online here: [URL]https://regex101.com/[/URL] ) you can see that the movie name match is empty. This is because the title part : "[^\\|\/]*?)" is "lazy" and accepts zero characters. I first thought about making it "greedy" instead of "lazy", but I suppose this is intentionally made "lazy" so that if there are two four-digit numbers starting with 19 or 20, we don't have any of them in the title and only the first one in the year. But admitting zero character titles doesn't make sense to me. If we replace "*?" with "+?" so that the title must have at least one character, the path above matches correctly. Regular Expression would then look like: [CODE](?<title>[^\\|\/]+?)\s*[\[\(]?(?<year>(19|20)\d{2})[\]\)]?[\.|\\|\/]*[/CODE] [USER=48495]@morpheus_xx[/USER] : Any thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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