# Need assist with a Replace with Regex
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 20, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159 "2025-07-20T15:50:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@HaywoodJ](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/HaywoodJ)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159/1 "2025-07-20T15:50:22Z")
Hey everyone, this might be easy but I cant quite figure it out. Say I have a song that looks like this:
Artist feat. someone
What additional expressions do I need to add so that it adds the closing bracket after the someone name so it appears like this?
Artist (Feat. someone)
I can figure out the first parenthesis and the capitilzation with the replace but dont know how to tell it to add the closing parenthesis after the featured artist. I thought it was something like \s but I havent been able to get it to work. Can someone help me out?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159/2 "2025-07-20T15:52:44Z")
> [@HaywoodJ](#):
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> I can figure out the first parenthesis and the capitilzation
So what does your expression look like so far?
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159/3 "2025-07-21T06:36:27Z")
> [@HaywoodJ](#):
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> but dont know how to tell it to add the closing parenthesis after the featured artist
Without knowing your current regular expression, we can only refer you to the documentation on [Literals](https://docs.mp3tag.de/regex/#literals):
> ## Literals
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> All characters except `.|*?+(){}[]^$`.
> These characters are literals when preceded by a `\`.
> [@HaywoodJ](#):
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> I thought it was something like \s
From the above linked documentation:
> `\s` matches any whitespace character
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### Author:  [@HaywoodJ](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/HaywoodJ)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159/4 "2025-07-21T20:04:32Z")
Sorry for the late response; So I dont have a regex setup for this just yet because I cant figure out the expression. Right now all I have is a simple replace setup for the first half and then I manually add the last closing parenthesis and I am trying to find out how to setup the regex so I dont have to do the last part manually anymore.
Replace: TITLE
Original: feat.
Replace with: (Feat.
This takes the original file of this "Artist feat. someone" and turns it into this "Artist (Feat. someone" and I just need to figure out how to add the closing parenthesis
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159/5 "2025-07-21T20:38:57Z")
You could add a further action of the type Format value for TITLE
Format string: `%title%)`
If you insist on a regular expression, use Format value for TITLE
Format string: `$regexp(%title%,(.*) feat. (.*),'$1 (Feat. $2)')`
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### Author:  [@HaywoodJ](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/HaywoodJ)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159/6 "2025-07-21T21:22:27Z")
Awesome! Format value is what I should have been using instead of the regexp in the Actions menu. Makes things so much easier to handle; I appreciate it!!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/need-assist-with-a-replace-with-regex/69159/7 "2025-08-20T21:22:51Z")
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