# Filtering by the no of occurences of a char
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-by-the-no-of-occurences-of-a-char/14917
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 22, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-by-the-no-of-occurences-of-a-char/14917 "2013-07-22T05:30:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@car313](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/car313)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-by-the-no-of-occurences-of-a-char/14917/1 "2013-07-22T05:30:27Z")
Dear People
I have a lot of songs from movies. (In India from where I am writing, all movies have at least three of four songs 😉
The filenames are generally the first few words of the first lines. Mostly the words are separated by space or a dash.
I want to filter the filenames depending upon the number of spaces (or dashes).
For example - all filenames that have only two space (or dashes), only three spaces (or dashes).
I would be grateful for any help and thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-by-the-no-of-occurences-of-a-char/14917/2 "2013-07-22T14:28:13Z")
Look here:
[Filter expressions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10080/5)
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filtering-by-the-no-of-occurences-of-a-char/14917/3 "2026-02-09T12:24:36Z")