# Splitting texts in an array

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/splitting-texts-in-an-array/48203>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/splitting-texts-in-an-array/48203 "2020-10-12T09:01:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mausam614](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mausam614](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mausam614)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/splitting-texts-in-an-array/48203/1 "2020-10-12T09:01:16Z")

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How to get a separate array for movie names and years from the array?

l = [“The Wizard of Oz (1939)”, “Citizen Kane (1941)”, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) (1920)”, “Casablanca (1942)”]

desired results:

Movies = [“The Wizard of Oz”, “Citizen Kane”, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) ", “Casablanca”]

Years = [“1939”, “1941”, “1920”, “1942”]

Any help will be much appreciated.

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 10:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/splitting-texts-in-an-array/48203/2 "2020-10-12T10:03:47Z")

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Welcome!

I would use Regular expressions:  
[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/strings/#Regular-Expressions](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/strings/#Regular-Expressions)

For your example this can do, if every string is behaving nice:

```julia
re=r"(.*)\s+\((.*)\)$"
m=match.(re,l)

```

```julia
julia> m[1].captures
2-element Array{Union{Nothing, SubString{String}},1}:
 "The Wizard of Oz"
 "1939"

julia> m[2].captures
2-element Array{Union{Nothing, SubString{String}},1}:
 "Citizen Kane"
 "1941"

```

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**Author:** ![mausam614](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mausam614](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mausam614)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/splitting-texts-in-an-array/48203/3 "2020-10-12T10:32:46Z")

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Thank you.