# extracting word from tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-word-from-tag/8429
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 10, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-word-from-tag/8429 "2009-06-10T14:05:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jukos](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jukos)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-word-from-tag/8429/1 "2009-06-10T14:05:31Z")
Hi , have not been able to find a topic quite like what I'm after. I have downloaded podcasts that dont show up properly on my player so would like to modify the Album tag to fix this. the podcast comes with a tag like:Open Arms ep two 02-06-09. What I need to do is remove everything from this tag so that i am left with "two". The "ep" preceeding "two" may be the trick because it represents "episode" and is typically the word before the "two". So if I find "ep" in the string I would know "two" or "three " or whatever episode this podcast is would be the word following and that is the ony word I want to keep in the album tag. Thanks for any suggestions at all.
John
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-word-from-tag/8429/2 "2009-06-10T17:54:10Z")
> [@fryman](#):
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> ... the podcast comes with a tag like:Open Arms ep two 02-06-09. What I need to do is remove everything from this tag so that i am left with "two". The "ep" preceeding "two" may be the trick ...
Assuming there is also a date string at end of the title string I would try something like this regular expression ...
**Convert** | **Tag - Filename** | **ALT+1**
_Select format string_
Format string:
**$regexp('Open Arms ep two 02-06-09','^.+ ep (.+) \d\d-\d\d-\d\d$',$1)**
Preview
**two.mp3**
DD.20090610.2155.CEST
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### Author:  [@jukos](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jukos)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/extracting-word-from-tag/8429/3 "2009-06-11T13:06:53Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> Assuming there is also a date string at end of the title string I would try something like this regular expression ...
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> **Convert** | **Tag - Filename** | **ALT+1**
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> Format string:
> **$regexp('Open Arms ep two 02-06-09','^.+ ep (.+) \d\d-\d\d-\d\d$',$1)**
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> **two.mp3**
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> DD.20090610.2155.CEST
That works perfectly! Thanks so much, I would love to be able to manipulate this stuff myself but I know I would be investing months of learning and may only use it a couple of times.
Thanks again, John
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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/extracting-word-from-tag/8429/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:34Z")