# Regular Expression Question for Adding a Space
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-question-for-adding-a-space/7739
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 10, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-question-for-adding-a-space/7739 "2009-01-10T03:21:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-question-for-adding-a-space/7739/1 "2009-01-10T03:21:53Z")
Hi everyone,
I am trying to add a space before every "(".
eg: Extreme - Falling Down(Remix)
Extreme - Failling Down (Remix)
I created the following actions:
Replace with regular expression
Field: ALL
Regular Expression: (\l)(
Replace matches with: (\l) (
But this didn't work correctly. Anyone provide me with some insight? I know \l is for lower case and ( is a literal. Thought I actually had a chance of getting this one, 😃
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-question-for-adding-a-space/7739/2 "2009-01-10T08:53:51Z")
Regular Expression: (\l)(
Replace matches with: $1 (
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### Author:  [@fcastro](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fcastro)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-question-for-adding-a-space/7739/3 "2009-01-12T02:20:41Z")
Thanks Dano. So $1 stands for whatever value is present before the ( in the tag right? I was so close 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expression-question-for-adding-a-space/7739/4 "2026-02-09T12:21:18Z")