I have following couple of lines:
I have to pick writer name that comes after by and year it was written; 1925 and 1996 respectively. What I figured, I need a couple of RegEx; one for picking numbers only by doing \d+ and other for picking writer name. For Writer I made this regex(https://regex101.com/r/Z55yz3/1) but it is not working as it should due to presence of . and space.
[0-9]{4} - takes 4-digits number
\bby - gets word 'by' and
(?:\s+[A-Z][\w.]+)+- selects following words and abbreviations, beginning with uppercase letter
([0-9]{4}).*(?:\bby)((?:\s+[A-Z][\w.]+)+)
you can use this regex /^.+?\ BY (.+)$/is like this
$string_text = 'The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short novel which takes.';
preg_match("/^.+?\ BY (.+)$/is" , $string_text, $match);
echo $match[1];