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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH Regex - get filename tags, labels and descriptions Post 303024953 by Bishop on Sunday 21st of October 2018 12:59:27 AM
Old 10-21-2018
Ok, I think I got this thing working now.
I did not know how to extract content A,B,C from "only" end brackets so I had to create new VAR from the tail brackets (if existed) and then extract contents of A,B and C from that. Otherwise regex would be getting 1,2,3 from brackets in the filename.

Anyway... it is ok as it is now but if there is a better solution I would love to learn it.
note: this is for string testing only, once it is in a real script I would have checking to see if file or directory before getting shortName and extension.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
test_str=(
    'test1.{1}(2)[3] dots.spaces {A1}(B1)[C1].ext'
    'test2.[3]{1}(2) dots.spaces [C1](B1){A1}.ext'
    'test3 [3].com [C1].ext'
    'test4 {1}(2)[3]dots.ext'
    'test4 {1} (2) [3] dots.ext'
    'test6 (B1)[C1].ext'
    'test7[C1](B1).ext'
)
IFS='
'
regexp='\s*(\([^)]+\)|\{[^}]+\}|\[[^][]+\])+$'
subst=""
regexTag='.*\[([^]]+)\]'
regexLab='.*\{([^}]+)\}'
regexDes='.*\(([^)]+)\)'


for p in "${test_str[@]}"
do
    NameNoExt=`echo "${p%.*}"`
    if [[ $NameNoExt =~ $regexp ]]; then
        tailBrackets="${BASH_REMATCH[0]}";
        shortName=$(echo "$NameNoExt" | sed -r 's/'$regexp'/'$subst'/g');
    else
        shortName="$NameNoExt"
        tailBrackets=""
    fi
    # if tail bracket exist then extract A,B,C
    if [ $tailBrackets ]; then
        if [[ $tailBrackets =~ $regexTag ]]
        then 
          TAG="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
        else 
          TAG=""
        fi
        if [[ $tailBrackets =~ $regexLab ]]
        then 
          LAB="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
        else 
          LAB=""
        fi
        if [[ $tailBrackets =~ $regexDes ]]
        then 
          DES="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
        else 
          DES=""
        fi
    else
        TAG=""
        LAB=""
        DES=""
    fi
    zenity --info --text "`printf "Filename = \"$p\"\n\nNameNoExt = \"$NameNoExt\"\nShort Name  = \"$shortName\"\nTail Brackets = \"$tailBrackets\"\nA  = \"$LAB\"\nB  = \"$DES\"\nC  = \"$TAG\""`"
done

 

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