# Creating an Split Field  By Separator Action Item

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-an-split-field-by-separator-action-item/13961
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 3, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-an-split-field-by-separator-action-item/13961 "2012-10-03T18:35:46Z")
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### Author: ![d2b](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@d2b](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/d2b)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-an-split-field-by-separator-action-item/13961/1 "2012-10-03T18:35:46Z")

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Is it possible to crate an action item that splits tags that are separated by a semicolon followed by a space character? If so, how? We get weird results if we follow the normal procedure, which works well if there is only one character such as just the semicolon.

-d2b-

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### Author: ![JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/jj_johnson/32/67_2.png) [@JJ\_Johnson](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/JJ_Johnson)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-an-split-field-by-separator-action-item/13961/2 "2012-10-03T18:43:01Z")

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Then simply replace all semi-colon + space character sequences with a semi-colon beforehand.

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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-an-split-field-by-separator-action-item/13961/3 "2012-10-04T11:18:31Z")

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> [@d2b](#):
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> Is it possible to crate an action item that splits tags that are separated by a semicolon followed by a space character? ...

Another proposal ...

 

**Convert** | **Tag - Tag** | **ALT+5**

 

_Select format string_

 

Field:  
**ARTIST**

 

Format string:

 **$replace(%ARTIST%,'; ','\\\\')** 

Preview  
From:  
**John Lewis; Mick Jagger; Ringo Harrison**  
To:  
**John Lewis\\Mick Jagger\\Ringo Harrison**

 

... will give ....  
**ARTIST=John Lewis**  
**ARTIST=Mick Jagger**  
**ARTIST=Ringo Harrison**

DD.20121004.1518.CEST

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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, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/creating-an-split-field-by-separator-action-item/13961/4 "2026-02-09T12:24:05Z")

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