Question

To be more specific I do not know what the exact values will be.

Essentially i need to find 3 or 4 digit characters followed by the literal letter p?

ie 1080p, 720p, 576p etc…

Looked around a lot of stuff but just couldnt make it work.

Heres’ an example string

Back.to.the.Future.1985.720p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE.mkv

In this case I want to return

Back.to.the.Future.1985.

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re.search("^[^\d{3,4}p]+","Back.to.the.Future.1985.720p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE.mkv")

however, returns

'Back.to.the.Future.' 

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

>>> import re
>>> re.search("(.*)\d{3,4}p",
              "Back.to.the.Future.1985.720p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE.mkv").groups()[0]
'Back.to.the.Future.1985.'