# Move Regex Groups

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-regex-groups/16273>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 29, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-regex-groups/16273 "2014-10-29T01:08:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![marcusj0015](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@marcusj0015](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/marcusj0015)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-regex-groups/16273/1 "2014-10-29T01:08:30Z")

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I've got a regex

Field: artist  
Regular Expression: (Featuring:\s|featuring.|featuring|feat.|feat|ft.|ft)  
Replace Matches With: Featuring: (there's a space after the colon)

and it works great, it matches all forms of feat, and I've got another one: ([^\r\t]\*)(Featuring:\s) _([^\r]_)

that creates three groups, the first is for the artist, the second is Featuring: , and the third is what follows the featuring part, but I don't know how to put the first group in the artist tag, delete the second group, and put the third group in the %composer% tag, how do I do this?

I tried variations of $1 %artist% $2 NULL $3 %composer%, and none of them work.

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**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 29, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-regex-groups/16273/2 "2014-10-29T07:16:54Z")

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> [@marcusj0015](#):
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> I tried variations of $1 %artist% $2 NULL $3 %composer%, and none of them work.

A replace action does not transfer data to other fields.  
You need an action of the type "Import fields (Guess values", I think.  
Check the source data and then devise a guessing pattern where you enter the name of target field, e.g.  
%artist% - %dummy% - %composer%

It works best with unique separators between the mask elements.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/move-regex-groups/16273/3 "2026-02-09T12:25:20Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC