# Remove Leading \\ Trailing Space
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-leading-trailing-space/14683
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 29, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-leading-trailing-space/14683 "2013-04-29T21:45:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-leading-trailing-space/14683/1 "2013-04-29T21:45:03Z")
What action will remove the space from the example below? Tried from the example given
\s+$ but nothing happen...
I would like this
Vocal : carmen McRae
To look like this:
Vocal: Carmen McRae
- I have the action to Cap after white space.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-leading-trailing-space/14683/2 "2013-04-30T04:18:46Z")
You do not tell what kind of action you have applied.
I think a simple "Replace" action would do:
Search
:
Replace
:
Instead of typing hit the space bar.
Or you experiment a little with your exprssion but leave out the $ as this describes the "end of field" so that your expression only removes spaces at the end of a field but not in the middle.
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### Author:  [@Beluna](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Beluna)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2013, 10:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-leading-trailing-space/14683/3 "2013-04-30T10:33:30Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> You do not tell what kind of action you have applied.
> I think a simple "Replace" action would do:
> Search
> :
> Replace
> :
> Instead of typing hit the space bar.
>
> Or you experiment a little with your exprssion but leave out the $ as this describes the "end of field" so that your expression only removes spaces at the end of a field but not in the middle.
I've seen this problem before - can't recall how to solve it.
Carmen McRae : vocals, Piano
Freddie Hubbard : trumpet, Flugelhorn
Hank Crawford : alto Saxophone, Grover Washington,Jr.
If you notice after the ":" The first letter should be Capped as in Vocal, Trumpet, Alto; however it sps the first word and caps everything after that.
The problem i found has to do with the whitespace between : and the first word vocal, trumpet, alto.
If I mamually remove the space, all words are capped.
somehow : is not being recognized.
The action I'm using from the tutorials:
Replace with expressions
: ^\s+
\b([\t]+|\s|\s+[\t]+|[\t]+\s+|\s+[\t]+\s+)(\w)
$1$upper($2)
Basically, I want it to find all whitespace after : and replace with
Carmen McRae : Vocals, Piano
Freddie Hubbard : Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Hank Crawford : Alto Saxophone, Grover Washington,Jr.
Again, manually, if i remove the space... the current action works.
Hope that helps.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-leading-trailing-space/14683/4 "2026-02-09T12:24:28Z")