# IS there a script to remove titles that have the track number first?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-script-to-remove-titles-that-have-the-track-number-first/7978
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 22, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-script-to-remove-titles-that-have-the-track-number-first/7978 "2009-02-22T20:58:09Z")
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### Author: ![Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Marcabove)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-script-to-remove-titles-that-have-the-track-number-first/7978/1 "2009-02-22T20:58:09Z")

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I'm trying to get rid of the track number "01-title" to just "title". Now I'm doing it line by line can it be done with a script?

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### Author: ![Zardoz](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/a8b319/32.png) [@Zardoz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zardoz)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-script-to-remove-titles-that-have-the-track-number-first/7978/2 "2009-02-22T21:43:10Z")

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- Actions (Quick)
- Replace with Regular Expression
- Field:TITLE
- Regular expression:^\d\d-
- Replace matches with:

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### Author: ![Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Marcabove](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Marcabove)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-script-to-remove-titles-that-have-the-track-number-first/7978/3 "2009-02-28T17:29:52Z")

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What does all this mean? ^\d\d- Where can I find out about this so I don't have to ask. Is there a source to learn more about these?

Marc -THANKS!!!

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-there-a-script-to-remove-titles-that-have-the-track-number-first/7978/4 "2009-03-01T06:34:52Z")

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Hi Marc,

the place to start is probably the Mp3tag Help, especially the section on [Replace with Regular Expressions](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/replace-regexp) which has a short explanation of the regular expression syntax elements.

If you need some more, [Wikipedia: Regular expression](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) discusses the topic from start (^) to end ($) 😉.

Kind regards,  
Florian