# Filter Out Question
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-out-question/42972
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 15, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-out-question/42972 "2018-09-15T21:01:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@hotdak3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hotdak3)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-out-question/42972/1 "2018-09-15T21:01:07Z")
I have read, tried & get close, but failed often on how to:
I have at the end of file name, for example:
Artist - Title - Genre **(XX)** (X).mp3
I would like to know how to filter to get ONLY ALL **(XX)** as a result.
BTW: **(XX)** are numerical, IE **(12)** or **(123)** **(12,123)**
I tried: $, \d, MATCHES, HAS, & NOT, I get a blank list or all files,
NOT **(XX)** as the only result.
TY in advance
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-out-question/42972/2 "2018-09-15T22:12:15Z")
Try
%\_filename% MATCHES "(\d\d)"
THis should get all those filenames with 2 digits in parenthesis.
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### Author:  [@hotdak3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hotdak3)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-out-question/42972/3 "2018-09-16T04:59:39Z")
ohrenkino, thank you very much, it worked perfectly.
**OOOPPS, I** jumped too quick, I load a few songs to test & it appeared to have been the answer, but after I load a few hundred, I discovered it did not do it.
For example: (Inst) (M).mp3 or just this (M).mp3. Sorry ohrenkino.
Any other ideas. Thanks again
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-out-question/42972/4 "2018-09-16T10:04:07Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> %\_filename% MATCHES "(\d\d)"
it should read:
` %_filename% MATCHES "\(\d\d\)"`
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### Author:  [@hotdak3](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hotdak3)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filter-out-question/42972/5 "2018-09-16T17:01:46Z")
ohrenkino - YES! YES! YES! I hope you will smile as big as I am right now! Out of 800 I checked so far, it worked perfectly! Thank you!