# Remove everything after the closing parenthesis
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 22, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327 "2024-10-22T06:43:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@tdog](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tdog)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/1 "2024-10-22T06:43:58Z")
Hi, guys! I need to remove everything after the right parethesis in the title.
Source: Song Name (Remix) some text
Expected result: Song Name (Remix)
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/2 "2024-10-22T07:46:08Z")
Try an action of the type "Format value" or Convert \> Tag-Tag for TITLE
Format string: `$regexp(%title%,'(.*\)).*',$1)`
Please note that
> [@tdog](#):
>
> everything after the right parethesis in the title
also applies to e.g.
(Bigger & Better) Lies - Thompson Twins
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville - R.E.M.
(Flying on The) Wings of Love - Level 42
(It's not War) Just the End of Love - Manic Street Preachers
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### Author:  [@tdog](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tdog)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/3 "2024-10-22T13:14:49Z")
Thanks, it did exactly what i needed.
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### Author:  [@dapel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dapel)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/4 "2024-10-27T13:27:10Z")
I am looking to do the same, but instead of (parentheses) I have [brackets]. How would I edit this expression to do the same?
Also, if I have multiple brackets in a title, how do I remove everything after a certain bracket?
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/5 "2024-10-27T13:36:16Z")
Could you give real examples, please?
And tell us, what you have tried so far?
See also here:
> [@Regex: Remove 2nd set of parenthesis in TITLE](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/regex-remove-2nd-set-of-parenthesis-in-title/65712):
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> Evening Gents. This has been 'answered' on numerous posts but unfortunately I have yet to find any of the example regex postings to work (typically deletes everything but the actual song title). I have a few songs with TITLE like Something (Ft Mama Jane) (Prod. None) I want to remove the second set of parenthesis completely so it just says Something (Ft Mama Jane) Can anyone clue me into the expression to use?
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### Author:  [@dapel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dapel)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/6 "2024-10-27T14:13:07Z")
Here are some title samples:
Love Me [Mixshow Edit] [Clean] 90 8A
All Night Long [Album Edit] 99 10A
Somebody's Watching Me [2023 Spooky Bootleg] Clean Cut
I Love It [Flip] [Custom Edit] [Acap In] Clean
Hope this helps; let me know if you need any others.
I tried using replace with a wildcard, but as I am a notice with expressions I wasn't able to make the desired changes.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/7 "2024-10-27T14:15:10Z")
> [@dapel](#):
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> Love Me [Mixshow Edit] [Clean] 90 8A
Try
`$regexp(%title%,'(.*\]).*',$1)`
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### Author:  [@dapel](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dapel)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/8 "2024-10-27T14:43:52Z")
That worked; thank you!
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### Author:  [@mbrazil05](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mbrazil05)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/9 "2024-11-14T03:20:40Z")
`$regexp(%title%,'(.*\]).*',$1)`
i'm curious but can you break this code down and explain what each section is and is doing?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/10 "2024-11-14T07:08:56Z")
See the documentation:
> **[Regular Expressions – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/regex/)**
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> Documentation on support for regular expressions in Mp3tag. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.
and all in all it takes any number or any character until a square bracket appears and stores it in $1 and then it addresses everything following the square bracket. And then it returns the value stored in $1.
See also here for other solutions:
> [@Remove everything from first parenthese going forward](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-from-first-parenthese-going-forward/63376):
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> how do I create an action that will remove everything from the first parentheses going forward. ie. track name: Molly (ULTI-reMIX by Mark Roberts). I want to remove "(ULTI-reMIX by Mark Roberts)"
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2024, 7:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/11 "2024-12-14T07:09:01Z")
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