# character case in replace action

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-case-in-replace-action/5050
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 22, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-case-in-replace-action/5050 "2007-06-22T00:17:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![FauDrei](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@FauDrei](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/FauDrei)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-case-in-replace-action/5050/1 "2007-06-22T00:17:33Z")

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Hi, just discovered something....

Have an action wich searches for certain words with spaces (f.e. " the ") and replaces them with, seemingly the same, but lowercase variant of the word:

[#0]  
T=2  
F=\_ALL  
1= the  
2= the  
3=0|0

This action code used to find all the occoourences of word " the " (" the ", " The ", " THE ", " THe ", " ThE ", " tHE ", " tHe " and " thE ") and convert it to " the " variant.

Now, with version 2.38a, this action does not change anything (" The " remains " The ").

Is this a bug or has something changed in the settings that affected the behaviour of this action (and I was so lame not to notice it)?

[\_ALL\_conversion.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/ca53e8124b04283635e7afadd6f0a4d4c9866d2a.mta) (631 Bytes)

Thanks,

[\_ALL\_conversion.mta](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/ca53e8124b04283635e7afadd6f0a4d4c9866d2a.mta) (631 Bytes)

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-case-in-replace-action/5050/2 "2007-06-22T15:33:55Z")

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I'm not sure if that worked before. But I suggest to use this action (sorry, I don't know the exact words in english ![:blush:](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/1X/c5a064300f7d900a70c2196f6eee95e32dde9b52.gif ":blush:") )

_Aktionstyp:_ **Ersetzen mit regulären Ausdrücken**  
_Feld:_ **\_ALL**  
_Regulärer Ausdruck:_ **(?i)the**  
_Treffer ersetzen durch:_ **The**

[] Groß-/Kleinschreibung berücksichtigen

This regular expression will use the case-insensitive word "the" (in every variation) and replace it with the one and only "The" in every tag.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/character-case-in-replace-action/5050/3 "2026-02-09T12:20:21Z")

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