# How to strip everthing other than a word in line?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-strip-everthing-other-than-a-word-in-line/6973
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [June 26, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-strip-everthing-other-than-a-word-in-line/6973 "2008-06-26T07:21:01Z")
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### Author:  [@itsalok4u](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/itsalok4u)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-strip-everthing-other-than-a-word-in-line/6973/1 "2008-06-26T07:21:01Z")
i.e "Movie Name : Chameli (2004) Singer : Sunidhi Chauhan Music Director : Sandesh Shandilya"
Is it possible to extract "Sunidhi Chauhan" out of this Line and put it in the "Artist" tag with the parser of mp3tag?
I cannot use FindInLine command as Singer is not always returned by the server. So FindInLine Command error outs. So all i can do is strip out the unwanted data whenever Singer info is returned.
I am trying this command regexpreplace "^[^S]+" "" which removes everthing before "Singer" if the movie name does not start with "S"
How do I modify this regex to strip everything before only if the word is Singer?
What about striping everything on and after "Music Director"?
Please help as I am very close to making the first script that will help anybody looking to tag Indian Music.
any help is much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2008, 8:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-strip-everthing-other-than-a-word-in-line/6973/2 "2008-06-26T08:09:58Z")
> [@Alok](#):
>
> ...Is it possible to extract "Sunidhi Chauhan" out of this Line and put it in the "Artist" tag with the parser of mp3tag?...
As a starting point:
```
$regexp(Movie Name : Chameli (2004) Singer : Sunidhi Chauhan Music Director : Sandesh Shandilya,Movie Name : (.+?) Singer : (.+?) Music Director : (.+),$2)
```
gives 'Sunidhi Chauhan'.
DD.20080626.1210.CEST
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### Author:  [@itsalok4u](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/itsalok4u)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-strip-everthing-other-than-a-word-in-line/6973/3 "2008-06-28T20:06:48Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> As a starting point:
>
> ```
> $regexp(Movie Name : Chameli (2004) Singer : Sunidhi Chauhan Music Director : Sandesh Shandilya,Movie Name : (.+?) Singer : (.+?) Music Director : (.+),$2)
>
> ```
>
> gives 'Sunidhi Chauhan'.
>
> DD.20080626.1210.CEST
Thx a lot. Got it working. Basically this is what I did if anyone else is interested.
```
#Artist(S)
MoveLine -1
MoveLine +1
killtag "*"
regexpreplace "^(\s)" ""
regexpreplace " (.+?) " ""
regexpreplace "Singer(.+)" "Singer"
regexpreplace "(.+?)Singer" "Singer"
outputto "Artist"
if "Singer"
MoveLine -1
MoveLine +1
killtag "*"
if " Singer"
regexpreplace "Singer : " ""
else
regexpreplace "(.+?) Singer : " ""
endif
regexpreplace " (.+)" ""
if " ,"
MoveChar 4
endif
sayrest
Say "|"
else
Say "|"
endif
```
This will output anything in between Singer : and Music Director : if Singer exists.