About Those Pesky Leading And Trailing Spaces

[ohrenkino]

@ragtag

Is there perhaps another way to achieve this?

You could filter for dedicated fields (here: ARTIST) with trailing or leading spaces:
"$if($eql($len(%artist%),$len($trim(%artist%))),1,0)" IS "0"

Also, have a look at the FAQs:

Actions and batch-operations

How to remove/trim leading and trailing spaces Video tutorial for these actions Leading spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: _TAG Regular expression: ^\s+ Replace matches with: ^ matches the beginning of the string. Then \s+ searches for all whitespaces till a different char occurs. The whitespaces found will be replaced by nothing and, thus, deleted. Trailing spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: _TAG Regular expression: \s+$ Replace matc…