Question

I would like to capture the last folder in paths without the year. For this string path I would need just ‘Millers Crossing’ not ‘Movies\Millers Crossing’ which is what my current regex captures.

G:\Movies\Millers Crossing [1990]

preg_match('/\\\\(.*)\[\d{4}\]$/i', $this->parentDirPath, $title);

Answer 1

How about basename ^[docs] and substr ^[docs] instead of complicated expressions?

$title = substr(basename($this->parentDirPath), 0, -6);

This assumes that there will always be a year in the format [xxxx] at the end of the string.

(And it works on *nix too ;))

Update: You can still use basename to get the folder and then apply a regular expression:

$folder = basename($this->parentDirPath);
preg_match('#^(.*?)(?:\[\d{4}\])?$#', $str, $match);
$title = $match[1];