# eliminating the numbers at the begining of the filename
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminating-the-numbers-at-the-begining-of-the-filename/7893
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 5, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminating-the-numbers-at-the-begining-of-the-filename/7893 "2009-02-05T23:11:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminating-the-numbers-at-the-begining-of-the-filename/7893/1 "2009-02-05T23:11:13Z")
how can i eliminate the numbers that appear at the beginning of the filename? for example ,, i have filenames as "100 How to win". now i want to remove the number at the beginning and want to get the filename only as"How to win"..thanks in anticipation.have a nice day.
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### Author:  [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminating-the-numbers-at-the-begining-of-the-filename/7893/2 "2009-02-06T22:59:12Z")
I have no words to express my happiness that i have found the way to do that. for the information of anyone on the forum i am quoting the process.
action-choose -replace with regular expression
field-choose-"filename"
regular expression\>"^\d\d\d"
replace match with stays empty.
I express my gratitude to the programmer of this soft. have a nice day.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminating-the-numbers-at-the-begining-of-the-filename/7893/3 "2009-03-16T22:44:51Z")
> [@evergreen1](#):
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> ... regular expression\>"^\d\d\d"
> replace match with stays empty. ...
Taking your example string this expression would leave a leading space char.
So you should better use a regular expression like the following which can detect one ore more leading digits followed by one ore more white space characters: "^\d+\s+"
DD.20090317.0045.CET
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### Author:  [@evergreen1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/evergreen1)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminating-the-numbers-at-the-begining-of-the-filename/7893/4 "2009-03-17T01:15:48Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Taking your example string this expression would leave a leading space char.
> So you should better use a regular expression like the following which can detect one ore more leading digits followed by one ore more white space characters: "^\d+\s+"
>
> DD.20090317.0045.CET
thanks for the suggestions. have a nice day.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/eliminating-the-numbers-at-the-begining-of-the-filename/7893/5 "2026-02-09T12:21:22Z")