I have a bunch of files for our website that have the months in the file name. However, the months are in sometimes full name, sometimes 3 letter abbreviation.

Now, what I want to do is to rename the file name (I can do that) to a consistant naming convention. I can get the year out of the string ($year = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", '', $mfiles); where $mfiles is the file name), but cannot figure out the best way to get the 3 letter month from the file name.

I tried the following but get the year only.
Code:
$patterns[0] = "/Jan/";
$patterns[1] = "/Feb/";
$patterns[2] = "/Mar/";
$patterns[3] = "/Apr/";
$patterns[4] = "/May/";
$patterns[5] = "/Jun/";
$patterns[6] = "/Jul/";
$patterns[7] = "/Aug/";
$patterns[8] = "/Sep/";
$patterns[9] = "/Oct/";
$patterns[10] = "/Nov/";
$patterns[11] = "/Dec/";

$mfiles = "July_2012_Letter_Document.doc"

$year = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", '', $mfiles); // ditch anything that is not a number 
$month = preg_replace($patterns, '', $mfiles); 
echo 'year: ' .$year . ' - month - ' . $month . ' - filename: ' . $mfiles . '<br>';
Any help is appreciated.

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