# How to remove everything after \\\\?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-everything-after/57165>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 29, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-everything-after/57165 "2022-04-29T07:17:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![autumnra1n](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@autumnra1n](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/autumnra1n)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 7:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-everything-after/57165/1 "2022-04-29T07:17:52Z")

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I have an action to remove everything after a comma but it doesn't work for removing stuff after a double backslash, I'm guessing because the formatting is incorrect when you want to remove these characters

What I have looks like this:  
 ![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8e4f7d65a7ee0fc4ac9f1fc94aa45b69ff78b8bd.png)

Anyone know how I can achieve this?

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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:** [April 29, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-everything-after/57165/2 "2022-04-29T07:28:13Z")

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I think that you have a mulit-value field there - you could check the extended tags dialogue (Alt-T) and see if you have more than 1 field of the type ARTIST.

There several ways to deal with these:

- there is an action to remove duplicate fields:  
[Remove Duplicate Fields – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/remove-duplicate-fields/)
- you can merge the fields first to see the contents of all fields. Do this also with an action:  
[Merge Duplicate Fields – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/merge-duplicate-fields/)  
Take care that you define a separator unequal to `\\`
- apply the Converter\>Tag-Tag and assign %artist% to the field ARTIST - this also leaves only the contents of the first field.

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**Author:** ![autumnra1n](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@autumnra1n](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/autumnra1n)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 8:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-everything-after/57165/3 "2022-04-29T08:19:48Z")

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Ah you're right it was duplicate fields, I've since removed them - thanks.

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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:** [May 29, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-everything-after/57165/4 "2022-05-29T08:20:46Z")

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