# Remove ";" between artists
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-between-artists/51091
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-between-artists/51091 "2020-12-09T19:58:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@djdanko1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djdanko1)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-between-artists/51091/1 "2020-12-09T19:58:28Z")
I have a few albums that use ";" between each featuring artist on a tack. Is it possible to remove the ; and add the featuring artists to the title?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-between-artists/51091/2 "2020-12-10T06:28:34Z")
I would first copy the added artists to a separate field like FEAT\_ARTIST
Action of the type "Format value" for FEAT\_ARTIST
Format string: `$regexp(%artist%,'.*?;(.*)',$1)`
then, if there is more than 1 artist, replace the `;` with another action of the type "Replace" for FEAT\_ARTIST with whatever you want, perhaps a `&`.
Then, with a 3rd action add FEAT\_ARTIST to TITLE:
Format value for TITLE
Format string: %title% feat. %feat\_artist%
Then remove the extra artists from ARTIST with
Format string: `$regexp(%artist%,'(.*?);.*',$1)`
and finally delete the field FEAT\_ARTIST.
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### Author:  [@djdanko1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djdanko1)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-between-artists/51091/3 "2020-12-11T19:37:44Z")
Thank you. Can you explain to me what all the characters in the line of code do, so I can better teach myself to do this going forward?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-between-artists/51091/4 "2020-12-11T19:43:10Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> $regexp(%artist%,'._?;(._)',$1)
a regular expression with the string from the field %artist%:
`.` = take any character
`*`= but any number of them
`?`= and limit that to the smallest possible pattern (non-gready)
; = up to the semicolon
`(.*)`= remember this bit which is another "any character of any length"
`$1`= output that what you found for the first bit to remember
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### Author:  [@djdanko1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djdanko1)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-between-artists/51091/5 "2020-12-11T19:43:53Z")
wow thank you very much. You must be good at coding!