regexp with sed help

[TinCanFury]

I'm having a hell of a time writing a script in which I would like to obtain two variables from the current directory.

I'm trying to parse the season and episode number from the directory name, ie
"Top Gear 14x01 - blah"
and
"Top Gear 5x08 - blah"
but I can't come up with a common regexp set for sed that will get me the season (14 or 5) and episode (01 or 0 consistently. I either get 4 and 5 or 14 and nothing for the season.

Any help with figuring this out is much appreciated!
thanks!

[ghostdog74]

you can do it with the shell

$ file="Top Gear 14x01 - blah"
$ set -- $file
$ echo $3
14x01
$ t=$3
$ IFS="x"
$ set -- $t
$ echo $1
14
$ echo $2
01
$ unset IFS

[KenJackson]

How about this?

#!/bin/bash
DIR="Top Gear 5x08 - blah"
SEASON="$(echo "$DIR" | sed 's/.* \([0-9]\+\)x[0-9]\+ .*/\1/')"
EPISODE="$(echo "$DIR" | sed 's/.* [0-9]\+x\([0-9]\+\) .*/\1/')"

[secondmouse]

It would be even easier if you use perl:

$ echo "Top Gear 5x08 - bla"| perl -e 'while (<>) {next if !/(\d+)x(\d+)/; print("season=$1;episode=$2\n");}'