# How to remove leading numbers

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-leading-numbers/47576
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-leading-numbers/47576 "2020-01-21T00:22:57Z")
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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: [January 21, 2020, 5:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-leading-numbers/47576/2 "2020-01-21T05:46:01Z")

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see e.g. here:

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/11):
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> How to remove/trim leading track numbers? Action type: Replace with regular expressions Regular expression: ^\s\*\d+\s\*-\s\* Replace matches with: This regular expression removes the track number from 01 - Anything.. so that only Anything... remains. ^ matches the beginning of the string. Then any numbers of whitespaces \s\* followed by numbers from 0-9. The \s\*-\s\* part removes the hyphen and any whitespace characters around it.

and as this is the same target that you have linked, you would have to tell us what you tried, what you expected and what the actual result was.  
Otherwise, you get a copy of that HowTo.

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