# Complete removal of the first string

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/complete-removal-of-the-first-string/45514
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/complete-removal-of-the-first-string/45514 "2019-05-22T18:11:34Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/complete-removal-of-the-first-string/45514/15 "2019-06-12T15:10:26Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> [...]  
> You can test your regular expression in Convert\>Tag-Tag

In there this ```$regexp(%TITLE%,'^._? (._)',$1)`` works

So I copied it from there to Action, to avoid mistakes- and there this very same code does not work

This reminds me of this ["Filename - Tag" ICON - #9 by Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filename-tag-icon/16549/9), where depending on the way the data is going I either use Action [for FILENAME \> TITLE] or the `Tag - Filename` icon [for TITLE \> FILENAME]

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