# Colons and parenthesis in TAG affacting actions
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/colons-and-parenthesis-in-tag-affacting-actions/6886
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 29, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/colons-and-parenthesis-in-tag-affacting-actions/6886 "2008-05-29T15:29:36Z")
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### Author:  [@fish1717](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fish1717)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/colons-and-parenthesis-in-tag-affacting-actions/6886/1 "2008-05-29T15:29:36Z")
Hello,
I am having problems with the following tag that has a colon and parenthesis in the title please help:
Here is what I have:
Rediscovery (Part Ii): the New Mythology
I would like the tag to look like this:
Rediscovery (Part II): New Mythology, The
There are multiple issues with this tag:
1. I would like to capitalized roman numerals within parenthesis and without
2. I would like to move "The" to the end of the title as shown above
3. Capitalizing "the" after a colon
I have the following actions enabled:
**Action 1:**
Action type: Case Conversion
Field: _TAG
Case Conversion: Mixed Case
Words begin from/after and of: (.{[_
**Action 2:**
Action Type: Replace with regular expression
Field: \_TAG
Regular expression: ^(the|los|les|le|a)\s+(.\*)
Replace matches with: $2, $1
This action type is designed to move "the" and "a" to the end of my tag
For example:
The Beatles -\> Beatles, The
**Action 3:**
Action Type: Replace with regular expression
Field: \_TAG
Regular expression: \s(a|the|of|to|an|and)(?=\s)
Replace matches with: $lower($0)
This action is designed to replace The with lower case the if in the tag. I need to put some clarifyier here to capitalize the is its at the beginning of the tag.
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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/colons-and-parenthesis-in-tag-affacting-actions/6886/2 "2026-02-09T12:20:59Z")