# Delete All Text After Word **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [September 7, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-all-text-after-word/17213 "2015-09-07T11:18:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nanogirl21](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@nanogirl21](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nanogirl21)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-all-text-after-word/17213/1 "2015-09-07T11:18:07Z")
I am new to MP3Tag and am having trouble trying to accomplish a tag. I have over 2,000 songs and I would like to delete all text in the TITLE tag after the word FEAT. **Current Format Example** The Five Perfect Exertions - Feat. Bahamadia, 7l & Esoteric Stonez of Christ - Feat. Jus Allah Saviorself feat. Kill Priest The Kingdom That Worshipped the Dead feat. Dilated Peoples And Your Blood Will Blot Out the Sun feat. Immortal Technique & Poison Pen Walk with Me feat. Gutta **What I Would Like** The Five Perfect Exertions Stonez of Christ Saviorself The Kingdom That Worshipped the Dead And Your Blood Will Blot Out the Sun Walk with Me Again I am pretty new to this program so detailed instructions on how to do this is appreciated. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-all-text-after-word/17213/2 "2015-09-07T12:14:35Z")
> [@nanogirl21](#): > > ... would like to delete all text in the TITLE tag after the word FEAT. > > **Current Format Example** > The Five Perfect Exertions - Feat. Bahamadia, 7l & Esoteric > Stonez of Christ - Feat. Jus Allah > Saviorself feat. Kill Priest > The Kingdom That Worshipped the Dead feat. Dilated Peoples > And Your Blood Will Blot Out the Sun feat. Immortal Technique & Poison Pen > Walk with Me feat. Gutta > > **What I Would Like** > The Five Perfect Exertions > Stonez of Christ > Saviorself > The Kingdom That Worshipped the Dead > And Your Blood Will Blot Out the Sun > Walk with Me > ... You have to treat those with a hyphen and those without a hyphen separately. So: Load the files into MP3tag. Apply a filter to get those with a hyphen: %title% HAS "- feat" Select all files (Ctrl-A). Create an action of the type "Guess values (import value)" for TITLE (see the FAQs [/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1) on how to create an action) Enter as Guessing pattern: %title% - feat %dummy% Now filter again: %title% HAS " feat" Select all files (Ctrl-A) Create another action of the type "Guess values" for TITLE Guessing pattern: %title% feat %dummy% ---
**Author:** ![nanogirl21](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@nanogirl21](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/nanogirl21)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-all-text-after-word/17213/3 "2015-09-07T12:24:51Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#): > > You have to treat those with a hyphen and those without a hyphen separately. > So: > Load the files into MP3tag. > Apply a filter to get those with a hyphen: > %title% HAS "- feat" > > Select all files (Ctrl-A). > Create an action of the type "Guess values (import value)" for TITLE (see the FAQs [/t/967/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1) on how to create an action) > Enter as > Guessing pattern: %title% - feat %dummy% > > Now filter again: > %title% HAS " feat" > > Select all files (Ctrl-A) > Create another action of the type "Guess values" for TITLE > Guessing pattern: %title% feat %dummy% Thank you so much! Do you know if there is a way to create an automated series of steps? Example: make 1 button to complete step 1 and 2 above? ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-all-text-after-word/17213/4 "2015-09-07T13:52:17Z")
> [@nanogirl21](#): > > Thank you so much! Do you know if there is a way to create an automated series of steps? Example: make 1 button to complete step 1 and 2 above? In a way, yes: You create an action group with 2 actions. First action: Keep the one for "feat" without hyphen. Add a second action: (simple) Replace for TITLE Search string: blank-minus-blank Replace: (leave that empty) The second action removes the leftover blank-minus-blank from those titles that have " - feat", but as the first cut away only the "feat ...", the " - " is still there. The action should not hurt if there is no hyphen in the title. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-all-text-after-word/17213/5 "2015-09-07T15:50:07Z")
> [@nanogirl21](#): > > ... I would like to delete all text in the TITLE tag after the word FEAT. ... You may save the feat-data into a dedicated tag-field before getting lost of the feat-data at all. **1. Action "Format value" Field ......: FEAT Formatstring: $regexp(%TITLE%,'^(.+?)[\s-]+[[({\<]?(?:ft\.?|feat\.?|featuring)\s+(.+?)[])}\>]?\s\*$','$2',1) 2. Action "Format value" Field ......: TITLE Formatstring: $regexp(%TITLE%,'^(.+?)[\s-]+[[({\<]?(?:ft\.?|feat\.?|featuring)\s+(.+?)[])}\>]?\s\*$','$1',1)** DD.20150907.1950.CEST ---
**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, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-all-text-after-word/17213/6 "2026-02-09T12:25:51Z")