Question

I want to get a certain string from an .torrent name but I’m only getting this from it:

array
  0 => string 'e' (length=1)

What have I done wrong? This is the preg_match I use:

preg_match('/[S(0-9)E(0-9)]/i', 'True.Blood.S04E12.SWESUB.PDTV.XviD-DSMEDiA', $matches);

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Remove the square brackets and put them around the numbers and add + (meaning 1 or more) after them. This way you get the entire S##E## string, plus the numbers separately:

preg_match('/S([0-9]+)E([0-9]+)/i', 'True.Blood.S04E12.SWESUB.PDTV.XviD-DSMEDiA', $matches);
print_r($matches);
/* output:
Array
(
    [0] => S04E12
    [1] => 04
    [2] => 12
)
*/

You could also replace [0-9] with \d