# Regular Expressions question **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [October 25, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expressions-question/12627 "2011-10-25T17:48:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![durrie](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/durrie/32/5937_2.png) [@durrie](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/durrie)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expressions-question/12627/1 "2011-10-25T17:48:22Z")
> [@Regular Expressions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expressions/521/1): > > _Regular expression:_ **^\s\*[0-9]+\s\*-\s\*** > _Replace with:_ > > This one will remove the track-number (if followed by a dash) and white space at the beginning of a string > (for instance _01 - Come Together_ will become _Come Together_) > > _Regular expression:_ **^\s\*[0-9]+\s+** > _Replace with:_ > > This one will remove the track-number if followed by a white space > (for instance _01 Come Together_ will become _Come Together_) I've tried to modify this from above to meet my requirements but it only half works...can anyone help? I want to turn **_joe bloggs-song about you_**...into... **song about you** I want to remove all text and white space before the - in the title field. So I simply swapped out the numeral group above for the letter group a-z I created the following action... _Target_\_TITLE _Regular expression:_ ^\s\*[**a-z**]+\s\*- _Replace with:_"" This works for one set of text but fails when it encounters more than one word prior to the - so... _ **bloggs-song about me** _ is correctly stripped to _ **song about me** _...but... _ **joe bloggs-song about me** _ fails to be stripped of anything at all? Thanks in advance... durrie 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expressions-question/12627/2 "2011-10-25T19:03:36Z")
Regular expression: **.+-\s\*** Replace with: a dot represents any character in regular expressions ---
**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, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regular-expressions-question/12627/3 "2026-02-09T12:23:24Z")