# invert name and surname?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 3, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485 "2016-12-03T21:18:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Lauraq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lauraq)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485/1 "2016-12-03T21:18:58Z")
Hi:)
I have use the regex that I have find here
`$regexp(%artist%,(.*) (.*),$2',' $1)`
but don't work correclty becouse it add a "," for example
Bruce Springsteen
after the rename is
Springsteen, Bruce
Is possible delete the "," ?
Thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rijkstra)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485/2 "2016-12-03T22:59:08Z")
The quotes around the last comma are making it a literal. Try this:
`$regexp(%artist%,(.*) (.*),$2 $1)`
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### Author:  [@Lauraq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lauraq)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485/3 "2016-12-04T08:26:03Z")
> [@Rijkstra](#):
>
> The quotes around the last comma are making it a literal. Try this:
>
> $regexp(%artist%,(._) (._),$2 $1)
Fantastic, is perfect...THANKS 🙂
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485/4 "2016-12-04T10:24:00Z")
> [@Lauraq](#):
>
> Fantastic, is perfect...THANKS 🙂
Even though it is technically possible, I would not do it.
See e.g. this thread: [/t/13887/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/13887/1)
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### Author:  [@Lauraq](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lauraq)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485/5 "2016-12-07T05:52:35Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> Even though it is technically possible, I would not do it.
> See e.g. this thread: [/t/13887/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/13887/1)
no problem for me, I have divided the singers in:
groups
women singers
male singers
😉
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485/6 "2017-01-17T12:58:31Z")
> [@Lauraq](#):
>
> no problem for me, I have divided the singers in:
>
> groups
> women singers
> male singers
>
> 😉
And what if it is the case of Marylin Manson: a male going by a stage name containing a female name [Marylin] and a last name of a man [Manson]
Or the case of the Florence And The Machine: a group led by a female singer Florence Welch?
Or the case of Trespassers William: a group with a female singer Anna-Lynne Williams?
Or the case of a female composer Wendy Carlos, who at the beginning of the career was a man with the name Walter Carlos?
I tag / store every artist alphabetically. So Ludvig van Beethoven is between K and M
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/invert-name-and-surname/18485/7 "2019-12-03T08:38:52Z")