# Masking and selctive cells
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 23, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751 "2026-02-23T15:26:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@KEEBLER](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KEEBLER)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751/1 "2026-02-23T15:26:41Z")
is there a way to mask the data?
example
suppose I have the year as a four digit number 1974
but i want to use the last two digits in the new file name
example
LYNYRD SKYNYRD - SWEET HOME ALABAMA (74)
i did this one manually,
is there a way to only use only a specific part of a cell for each song?
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\>next case
is there a way to extract part of a cell and move/copy it to another one
example
FORTUNATE SON (LIVE)
is there a way to move the (LIVE) to another cell and delete it from the title cell?
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\>next case
can you add a TRIM option to remove leading or trailing spaces
example
in the previous case - there would be a trailing space when i move the (LIVE)
or
FORTUNATE SON (LIVE), sometimes the titles have leading spaces
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751/2 "2026-02-23T15:39:19Z")
> [@KEEBLER](#):
>
> is there a way to only use only a specific part of a cell for each song?
Convert Tag -\> Filename:
`%artist% - %title% ($right(%year%,2))`
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> [@KEEBLER](#):
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> is there a way to move the (LIVE) to another cell and delete it from the title cell?
One way could be:
Search for space bracket LIVE bracket
Replace it with "nothing"
`$replace(%title%,' (LIVE)',)`
Then do the opposite:
Add a fixed text ` (LIVE)` to whatever field you want.
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`$trim` already exists - from the [documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting/#string-functions):
`$trim(x,c)` trims all leading and trailing whitespace from the string x. The optional second parameter c specifies the character to trim.
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### Author:  [@KEEBLER](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KEEBLER)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751/3 "2026-02-23T16:10:13Z")
THANK YOU
that is most helpful 🙂
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### Author:  [@KEEBLER](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/KEEBLER)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751/4 "2026-02-23T16:16:58Z")
the last 2 on the year, does not work, only copies (right(%origyear%,2)) in ““
note: im using tag to tag
NEVER MIND
I forgot the $
my fault
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2026, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751/5 "2026-02-23T16:31:18Z")
> [@KEEBLER](#):
>
> I forgot the $
Yes, each character is crucial.
This includes the ones you can't see, such as leading and trailing spaces.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/masking-and-selctive-cells/70751/6 "2026-03-02T16:32:00Z")
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