# About Those Pesky Leading And Trailing Spaces

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/about-those-pesky-leading-and-trailing-spaces/70538
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 21, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/about-those-pesky-leading-and-trailing-spaces/70538 "2026-01-21T12:04:40Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2026, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/about-those-pesky-leading-and-trailing-spaces/70538/3 "2026-01-21T12:38:36Z")

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> [@ragtag](#):
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> 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](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/10):
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> How to remove/trim leading and trailing spaces [Video tutorial for these actions](http://www.vimeo.com/7756545) 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…

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