# 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")
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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: [November 14, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-everything-after-the-closing-parenthesis/66327/10 "2024-11-14T07:08:56Z")

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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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