# Conditional Export Action
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-export-action/11615
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 20, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-export-action/11615 "2011-02-20T13:00:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@thursday](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thursday)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-export-action/11615/1 "2011-02-20T13:00:49Z")
Is it possible to create an action which conditionally exports files as determined by a given export configuration? i.e. an action which exports using exportconfiguration.mte if and only if a given regular expression is satisfied.
Many thanks,
Thursday
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-export-action/11615/2 "2011-02-20T17:38:03Z")
Use the filter (F3) to show only files with the regular expression and export these.
Formatstring for the filter:
%field% MATCHES regular expression
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### Author:  [@thursday](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/thursday)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-export-action/11615/3 "2011-02-20T18:02:44Z")
> [@pone](#):
>
> Use the filter (F3) to show only files with the regular expression and export these.
>
> Formatstring for the filter:
> %field% MATCHES regular expression
I'd been hoping to avoid frequent switching between filtered and unfiltered files applying various actions, but I guess there's no workaround.
Thanks anyway 🕶
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/conditional-export-action/11615/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:55Z")