# how to delete unnecessary character?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-unnecessary-character/8251
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 17, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-unnecessary-character/8251 "2009-04-17T19:15:52Z")
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### Author: ![chin](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@chin](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chin)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-unnecessary-character/8251/1 "2009-04-17T19:15:52Z")

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I cannot describe it in English.

e.g, categories are TITLE  
  
**001 test** blahblahblah.mp3  
**002 test** hblahblahbla.mp3  
...  
**123 test** lahblahblahb.mp3

Bolded are what will delete, how to made it with regular expressions?

THX!

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### Author: ![newser](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@newser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/newser)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-unnecessary-character/8251/2 "2009-04-17T23:06:55Z")

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new action

regular expression

\_FILENAME

(\d\*) (._) (._)

$3

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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, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-delete-unnecessary-character/8251/3 "2026-02-09T12:21:29Z")

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