# Auto Adding a Space After a Period
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 29, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367 "2007-08-29T05:06:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/1 "2007-08-29T05:06:39Z")
Hi all wondering if someone knew how to have mp3tag always make sure there is a space after a period.
For example:
Jowell Y Randy - 15. Rastrillea (Ft.Los Leones) (Official Remix).mp3
Changes to this:
Jowell Y Randy - 15. Rastrillea (Ft. Los Leones) (Official Remix).mp3
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/2 "2007-08-29T10:17:35Z")
Please  [Aktionen](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/596/1)
If you can't translate it to english, just let us know...
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 11:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/3 "2007-08-29T11:00:20Z")
FAQ is also available in English...
[Actions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1)
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/4 "2007-08-29T13:21:57Z")
Danke, dano!
Ich hab die noch gesucht, aber leider auch mit Sprachwahl "englisch" landet man bei klick auf FAQ (links von Hilfe) auf die deutsche FAQ. 🕶
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### Author:  [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/5 "2007-08-30T19:38:33Z")
Faq doesn't really get into how to automatically have a space added after a period. Are both faq's the same?
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### Author:  [@Mizery\_Made](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mizery_Made)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/6 "2007-08-30T20:13:39Z")
Maybe an action like this:
**Replace with regular expression**
**Regular expression:**.([^\s+])
**Replace matches with:**. $1
You can try it, I'm not exactly an expert with the actions and/or RegEx though, so I would thoroughly test it before running it on a large amount of files.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/7 "2007-08-30T20:37:58Z")
Yes FAQ doesn't help because a simple replace doesn't work.
The RegEx of Mizery\_Made is also not good if you apply it to a filename because it also adds a space before the extension. (And why the + sign?)
Edit. Ok we just put the RegEx in a different action:
_Action type:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **\_FILENAME**
_Formatstring:_ **$regexp(%\_filename%,'.([^\s])',. $1)**
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### Author:  [@Mizery\_Made](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Mizery_Made)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/8 "2007-08-31T02:18:37Z")
Right you are Dano :\
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### Author:  [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/9 "2007-09-02T05:14:45Z")
Wow thanks guys! That was REALLY complex don't think I could have figured that out at all.
Thanks both Dano and Mizery\_Made for your efforts 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-after-a-period/5367/10 "2026-02-09T12:20:28Z")