Have this to remove a, an or the but want to keep them if not the first word of the string, [image] Like in "2 The Hard Way" I would want to keep "The" in place in this instance or Like in "Maybe A Dingo Ate Your Baby" I would want to keep "A" in place in this instance What would I add to this…

[image] Gat3pm: to keep a, an or the when not the first word Try $regexp(%title%,^(A |An |The ),)

This was just recently answered for you here. [image] Remove a, an and the Support Create an action of the type "Replace with regular expression" for the field with the string (you don't say which it would be) Search string: ^A |The |An Replace with: (leave empty) For…

I only want to take out A, An or The if they are the FIRST word of the string, Other wise I want to keep them in.

[image] Gat3pm: Like in "Maybe A Dingo Ate Your Baby" I would want to keep "A" in place in this instance Your regular expression has only two small errors: $regexp(%title%,^A |An |The |,) should be - as @ohrenkino says: $regexp(%title%,^(A |An |The ),) which means: [image] The pipe sym…

Thank You for explaining It. Trying to learn off other peoples posts is hard a lot of the time. The end results of what it should look like are not provided. I am one of those people that has to see it to understand it, especially if I am unfamiliar with the context of what is happening.

You can test scripting functions including $regexp() in Convert>Tag-Tag.

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MotleyG January 28, 2025, 2:21am 2

This was just recently answered for you here.