# How to delete Catalog number from Work

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-catalog-number-from-work/67827
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 14, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-catalog-number-from-work/67827 "2025-03-14T18:31:30Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-catalog-number-from-work/67827/9 "2025-03-15T09:16:08Z")

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There are so many threads in this forum that deal with the problem of the removal of the first couple of characters, e.g. here:

> [@Remove first 'n' characters from a string?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-first-n-characters-from-a-string/16153):
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> For a very large label collection I have, all of the album names are something like 'ANJ003 - blahblahblah' or 'ANJCD123 - something longer than blah blah'. I am having trouble finding a way to simply remove the front code and the '-' leaving only the end portion. I attempted to use the Filename - Filename' technique but I can't find a consistant way to mark each word in the string, since all of the different files have different length names. Is there a command that will simple remove, for…

and if that does not help, use the search function or have a look at the documentation.  
That information should help to solve your general problem.  
If you need a more specific help, then much more specific information from your side would be required as in such cases, to my experience, every character counts.

I could think of an alternative approach with  
`$replace(%work%,%catalognumber% ,)`  
But as you have not mentioned the field names, this is just guess work.

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