# Auto Adding a space no matter what letter is present
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-no-matter-what-letter-is-present/3430
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 8, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-no-matter-what-letter-is-present/3430 "2006-06-08T16:53:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-no-matter-what-letter-is-present/3430/1 "2006-06-08T16:53:17Z")
Hi everyone wondering if someone could shed some light on this one.
I have a file named:
**Bob sinclar-world hold on.mp3**
I would like to via the actions whenever I have a dash for there to be a space present no matter what letter is in front or behind the dash. So via the action I would like this file renamed to:
**Bob sinclar - world hold on.mp3**
But I can't figure out the formula to get it done...its as if I need something that means "every" letter then the dash replace etc. I think... 
## PS I tried this: Replace [a-z]-[a-z] with
That actually worked but removed the r and w, which looked like this:
**Bob sincla - orld hold on.mp3**
sooo close!!
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-no-matter-what-letter-is-present/3430/2 "2006-06-08T17:13:15Z")
Regular Expression:
Replace: \s\*-\s\*
with: " - "
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### Author:  [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-no-matter-what-letter-is-present/3430/3 "2006-06-09T11:26:24Z")
Thanks Dano worked perfectly 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/auto-adding-a-space-no-matter-what-letter-is-present/3430/4 "2026-02-09T12:19:47Z")