Regex PHP how to match tag followed by

Question

I can't find a solution to this problem: I want to match all text between tags and followed by 4 numbers inside ( ).
Exg. I want to match this:

<i>Alien - Resurrection </i> (1997)
<i>Alien - Resurrection </i>(1997)
<i>Alien - Resurrection </i>
(1997)

Now if it founds:

<li> Alien -Resurrection </i> bla bla bla <i> Alien the first one </i> (1991)

It matches the whole string, but i would like it to only match the

<i> Alien the first one </i> (1991)

The strict rule is that after the tag there must 4 digits into brackets ()

My regular expression now looks like this:

/<i>(.*?)<\/i> \(([0-9]*)\)/s

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– CD001, Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 15:17

Avinash Raj · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-09 15:09:37Z

1

Use anchors..

/^<i>([\s\S]*?)<\/i>\s*\(([0-9]{4})\)$/

DEMO

edited Nov 9, 2015 at 15:09

answered Nov 9, 2015 at 15:01

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Mat Teo Over a year ago

Close, but i think i didn't explain very well. The problem is that now, my regex it matches this:<li> Alien -Resurrection bla bla bla Alien the first one (1991) but i would like it to only match the Alien the first one (1991). The strict rule is that after the tag there must 4 digits into brackets ()

Alex Blex Over a year ago

Just remove ^ and $ from the regex

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