[yaxlir]

Hello,

Please help, I've stared at this thing for hours now. Not even sure if it's my regex dumbness or a ScraperEdit bug.

Trying to CreateSearchUrl-s for movies with differing name formats, such as:
Eat Drink Man Woman.mp4
The Palm Beach Story (HQ) arte 2015-02-16 20h15.mov
Ben Hur (1959).mov
Chicago (2002) [Musical].mov

Ideally, the regex would truncate after (and including) the markers "(HQ)" and "[". (A "(" for marker would not include the year.)
What I have tried so far in ScaperEdit (here for "(HQ)":

Negative lookbehind

Code:

(.+)(?! \(HQ\).+)(\..{3,})

but \1 is greedy and lazy won't work; (.+)*?(?! \(HQ\)… also returns the full filename "The Palm Beach Story (HQ) arte 2015-02-16 20h15.mov"

If statement

Code:

(?(Marker)(TitleBeforeMarker)|(FullTitle))

but apparently the if-clause is not supported; even regex101.com says "(?" is an invalid group structure.

The apparently easiest

Code:

(.+)( \(HQ\).+)?(\..{3,})

has also the greedy problem.

Either|Or, searching for the truncated version first

Code:

(.+)( \(HQ\).+)(\..{3,})|(.+)(\..{3,})

this returns the title only, either in \1 or in \4, but...
simply combining both returns in the output

Code:

<url>http://........?q=\1\4</url>

won't work, I guess because always \1 or \4 is empty.

So I split into two regexps.
the first to execute is without truncation and with "clear destination" checked

Code:

(.+)(\..{3,})

followed by the regex with truncation and without "clear destination"

Code:

(.+)( \(HQ\).*)(\..{3,})

Both give the desired title only in \1. If the second regexp finds something to truncate the second result would overwrite the first. But in ScraperEdit I get a discrepancy between the returns of "find matches" on the truncating expression and the url created in the debugger. Running on "The Palm Beach Story (HQ) arte 2015-02-16 20h15.mov", "find matches" returns the desired truncated "The Palm Beach Story" as \1, but the debugger does not truncate and produces the URL "…?q=The+Palm+Beach+Story+%28HQ%29+arte+2015-02-16+20h15".

Where am I wrong?
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[yaxlir]

ScraperEdit is broken, at least in my configuration.

Some regexps that didn't work in it did work in Kodi.