# Remove Characters from field

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-characters-from-field/52482>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-characters-from-field/52482 "2021-03-23T13:43:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Woodsy](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@Woodsy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Woodsy)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-characters-from-field/52482/1 "2021-03-23T13:43:20Z")

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Hello

I have a large number of files that have 6 characters in front of the album name that i would like to bulk remove, 4 are numerical and 2 are spaces eg 1 234 Album Name  
I have tried creating actions using both the replace and replace with regular expression using the \* wild card character but have had no success, as the numerical values vary i was looking for something as simple as just being able to state the number of spaces to delete such as "replace \*\*\*\*\*\* " with " "

Is this possible ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-characters-from-field/52482/2 "2021-03-23T13:47:28Z")

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You could try Convert\>Tag-Tag for ALBUM  
Format string: `$regexp(%album%,\d \d\d\d ,)`  
... provided, the string with numbers has a blank between the first single digit and the following 3 ones.

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**Author:** ![Woodsy](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@Woodsy](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Woodsy)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-characters-from-field/52482/3 "2021-03-24T12:31:11Z")

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Hello

That worked great, just need one little tweak with a space but updated over a thousand files in a few mins

Many Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-characters-from-field/52482/4 "2021-04-23T12:31:13Z")

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