Regular expression to extract the year from a string

Question

This should be simple but i cant seem to get it going. The purpose of it is to extract v3 tags from mp3 file names in Mp3tag.

I have these strings I want to extract

Answer 1

You need to escape the parentheses. Also you can restrict that a year has only got 4 numbers:

^(.+)\s\(([0-9]{4})\)$

The year is in matchgroup 2.