# How to Change TagsLikeThis to "Tags Like This

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 14, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515 "2003-10-14T21:09:55Z")
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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/1 "2003-10-14T21:09:55Z")

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Hi ,

Is it possible to re-insert spaces in tags where the user has stripped all them, re-inserting spaces based on SentenceCase?

eg.  
Title: StopThePlanetIWantToGetOff

Is it possible - or could I make a feature request for - to be able to change this to:

Title: Stop The Planet I Want To Get Off

Obviously mp3tag won't be able to recognized what are "words" , however it should be possible to do it by SentenceCase.

ie. if it sees a little character, then a big character ("aB") then it should insert a space ("a B") ...

What do you think?  
thanks again!  
DukeTogo

PS. Wish I took more than just Grade 11 German! 😉

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### Author: ![areve](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@areve](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/areve)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/2 "2003-10-15T05:20:13Z")

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It should be possible with Regular Expressions, that Florian said [he would add to its "internal wishlist"](http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~fh298783/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=eng;action=display;num=1065427388#2).  
I don't know any way to do it for the time being.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/3 "2003-10-15T19:18:36Z")

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Hi DukeTogo,

I've implemented regular expressions with the current [development build](http://developer.mp3tag.de) of Mp3tag.

Just choose _Converter, Actions_ and create a new action group called **_TagsLikeThis_** and a _Replace with regular expression_ action with  
**Regular Expression:**'u+'  
**Replace matches by:**' $0' (note the space character)

and a second _Replace with regular expression_ action with  
**Regular Expression:**'^s'  
**Replace matches by:** (keep this field empty)

Hope that helps!

With best regards,  
~ Florian

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### Author: ![beaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@beaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beaker)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/4 "2003-10-15T20:47:32Z")

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'u+' & '^s' ???

Is there a list of what these expressions mean? To me regular expressions mean 'S' and ' S'.

Thanks...

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/5 "2003-10-16T10:38:00Z")

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u is a shortcut for the group of all uppercase characters and s is a shortcut for all whitespace.

I've described the regular expression syntax in the topic [Configuration, Actions](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/replace-regexp) in Mp3tag's help file.

With best regards,  
~ Florian

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### Author: ![beaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ecb155/32.png) [@beaker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/beaker)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2003, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/6 "2003-10-16T11:58:52Z")

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Perfect. Sorry to be such a dolt 🙂

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### Author: ![ffolke](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@ffolke](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ffolke)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/7 "2007-10-01T15:53:08Z")

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this regex doesn't seem to work for me. Maybe it doesn't work because it is so old?

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/8 "2007-10-02T06:11:23Z")

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Does the [solution in the FAQs](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/967/1) work?

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### 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, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-change-tagslikethis-to-tags-like-this/515/9 "2026-02-09T12:19:10Z")

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