# Put a space before an exclamation point
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-a-space-before-an-exclamation-point/16358
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 24, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-a-space-before-an-exclamation-point/16358 "2014-11-24T17:39:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Thg6276](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Thg6276)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-a-space-before-an-exclamation-point/16358/1 "2014-11-24T17:39:28Z")
Bonjour,
I have a problem with my tags.
I want to put a space before the explanation points in the title of the tracks.
Example : Touchy! -\> Touchy !
I have tried with the action replace (! -\> space !)but without any success.
How to do this please ?
By the way, second question, how to search all tracks with an exclamation point only in the title.
Because when I do a search, I have all track with "!" but in the titles, album names, artists and so ...
I want to do a search only on the titles.
Sorry for all these questions.
Many thanks in advance
Thierry
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-a-space-before-an-exclamation-point/16358/2 "2014-11-24T17:46:40Z")
> [@Thg6276](#):
>
> Bonjour,
>
> I have a problem with my tags.
>
> I want to put a space before the explanation points in the title of the tracks.
>
> Example : Touchy! -\> Touchy !
>
> I have tried with the action replace (! -\> space !)but without any success.
>
> By the way, second question, how to search all tracks with an exclamation point only in the title.
>
> Because when I do a search, I have all track with "!" but in the titles, album names, artists and so ...
>
> I want to do a search only on the titles.
>
> Sorry for all these questions.
>
> Regards
> Thierry
You can FILTER for data. Try:
%title% HAS "!"
If you want to filter for all those that have an exclamation mark without blank in front of it:
%title% HAS "!" AND NOT %title% HAS " !"
For the replace action:
Do not mix a palin "Replace" with "Replace with regular expression". In the latter, the ! has a special meaning.
So: create an action of the type "Replace" for TITLE
Search string: !
Replace string: \_!
(where the \_ is actually the blank).
Just a personal remark: according to typing rules (there is an ISO standard for that) any punctuation is never preceeded by a blank. So it could be that with the replace action you leave the holy grounds of standardization. 😉
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### Author:  [@Thg6276](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Thg6276)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-a-space-before-an-exclamation-point/16358/3 "2014-11-24T19:15:51Z")
Thank you
All is OK now
In fact I have tried with a tag called TITRE instead of TITLE this is the reason why it was not successfull ...
Thank you also for the filter %artist% ...
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/put-a-space-before-an-exclamation-point/16358/4 "2024-10-25T07:24:19Z")
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