# How to remove part of title field **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [October 10, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685 "2019-10-10T06:19:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Avtem)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/1 "2019-10-10T06:19:26Z")
I have title field like this: **№2 f-moll (op.70)** sometimes like this: **Три блестящих вальса №1 As-dur (op.34)** So, as you can see it has 3 chunks (7 chunks in 2-nd example) of info separated by space. I want to delete 3-rd chunk (or 7-th). How can I do that? I tried "Guess values" with: %title% %title% %dummy%, but it won't work. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/2 "2019-10-10T15:29:30Z")
If that part is always in parenthesis, you could try an action of the type Guess value Source: `%title%` Format string: `%title% (%dummy%)` ---
**Author:** ![Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Avtem)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/3 "2019-10-10T15:52:47Z")
Wow, this is such great solution! Yes, in my case it's always last chunk. Thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/4 "2019-10-11T15:19:23Z")
_Just for the record:_ @Avtem If you remove this last "chunk \*\*" (as you name it) how do you identify such a song later? With only " **№2 f-moll**" as title, it is pretty hard to know what song this could be. Even in combination with the artist you get several possible results. \*\* Opus = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus\_number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_number) ---
**Author:** ![Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Avtem)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/5 "2019-10-11T15:32:59Z")
I name them like this now: **Prelude №2 f-moll** or valse, sonata etc. ---
**Author:** ![Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Avtem)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/6 "2019-10-12T09:00:38Z")
_Edit_: Well, I've learned a little bit about Regular expressions and now I know how to solve the problem. 1. Select songs with **same pattern**. For example I choose this: **Prelude №2 f-moll (op.38)**. As we can see titles always have 4 parts separated by space, so now we know how the pattern looks. 2. Press `[Alt+Shift+6]`, choose `Replace with regular expression` 3. Select a field what you want to change (title, filename, album, whatever) 4. _(This step you have to check for yourself)_ In the field ` Regular expression` paste `(\S+)` for every part of the pattern (in our case we have 4 parts) separated by spaces. And we've got this: > (\S+) (\S+) (\S+) (\S+) 1. In the field `Replace matches with` do whatever you wan't with the parts using `$1 $2 $3 $4`. Where $3 in our case means following: `f-moll` So, I'll write here this: **$1 $3 $2** Result will be: **Prelude f-moll №2** ---
**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:** [October 12, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/7 "2019-10-12T09:24:24Z")
The analysis of the pattern can always be formal or semantically. You have chosen the formal way. The semantical way could look like this: you have a string in front of "№" followed by a digit and you have a following string up to a an opening bracket. So the pattern could look like this: Search string: `(.*)(№\d+)(.*)\(.*` The replace string stays the same. The advantage is that the search string would also cater for Три блестящих вальса №1 As-dur (op.34) which has more blank-separated string parts in front of the № than just one. ---
**Author:** ![Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Avtem](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Avtem)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/8 "2019-10-12T10:05:00Z")
Wow! This is really smart solution in my case. I think the regex `(. *)(№\d+)(.* )(.*` could be wrong. I've changed it a little bit, so now regex looks like this: `(.+)(№\d+) (\S+).+` and field "Replace matches with" like this: `$1 $2 $3`. However, my question was about "detecting" parts separated by whitespace and possibility to work with every single part. So I hope it will help those people are looking for this _Edit: there is even simpler solution - just remove last part and a space. However I haven't figured out how to do this. I tried_ `\S+\s$`_but it doesn't work._ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-remove-part-of-title-field/46685/9 "2019-11-11T10:09:46Z")
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