In the COPYRIGHT field I often find strings like 2023 Blues Route / Delta 2023 Blues Route / Delta The texts contain a different even number of words. I would like to eliminate the obvious redundancy in the text. After correction, I would like to get the following: > 2023 Blues Route / Delta …

See this thread which deals with the field GENRE. I am sure that you can adapt it to work with COPYRIGHT: [image] Delete repeated genre's in the same exact field Support I have looked everywhere for a solution, and have found nothing to pre-exist. All the other posts anyw…

Thank you for this hint. As I don't understand :thinking: the expression $regexp($reverse($regexp($regexp($reverse($regexp($regexp(%Genre%,'^(\s+;*|\s*;+)+|(\s+;*|\s*;+)+$|((?<=;)\s+)|(\s+(?=;))',),'^|,';')),'(;[^;]+)(?=(\1|;.*?\1))',),'^;+|;+,)),'(?<=;)',' ') in detail, I am not shure how to dea…

I would have thought that you replace every reference to %genre% with %copyright% and then try it in Convert>Tag-Tag for COPYRIGHT.

There is no logical link between GENRE and COPYRIGHT. In COPYRIGHT you will often find a) the holder of the copyright b) the representative of the trademark I use COPYRIGHT and use it synonymously with the value of PUBLISHER. My goal here is to reduce or merge to one value.

The regular expression deals with the contents of GENRE as you can see in [image] Roland: ...$regexp($regexp(%Genre%,'^(\s+;... To make that work with COPYRIGHT or if you like PUBLISHER, you have to replace %genre% with the fieldname that you want to treat, so it should become ...$regexp($r…

Ok, I misunderstood your hint. I will try this and give feedback. :wink: January 2024: I am still working on this. :grimacing:

COPYRIGHT - eliminate redundancy

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ohrenkino July 8, 2023, 2:33pm 2

See this thread which deals with the field GENRE.
I am sure that you can adapt it to work with COPYRIGHT: