# Remove text before hyphen
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [June 9, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004 "2024-06-09T18:04:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@mrdj5150](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mrdj5150)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/1 "2024-06-09T18:04:56Z")
Hello friends,
Can you please tell me how to remove all text before the hyphen.
For example I have "6B - Aaron Neville" in the Title field. I would like to remove "6B - " and have it just say "Aaron Neville".
I've used the Replace feature in Quick Actions to replace "6B - " with nothing and it works. The issue I have is I have thousands of files with different Camelot Key (6B, etc) in the Artist field. If there was a simple command to remove everything before the hyphen under Artist it would save me so much time. Thank you!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/2 "2024-06-09T18:07:21Z")
Try an action of the type "Guess value"
Source: %artist%
Target string: %dummy% - %artist%
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/3 "2024-06-09T18:18:16Z")
> [@mrdj5150](#):
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> The issue I have is I have thousands of files with different Camelot Key (6B, etc) in the Artist field
Would it make sense to save this information into another tag than delete them forever?
I'm not sure but you could use the tag [INITIALKEY](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping/#initialkey) for this?
The Target string would be
`%initialkey% - %artist%`
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### Author:  [@mrdj5150](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mrdj5150)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/4 "2024-06-09T18:25:02Z")
Hi ohrenkino!
Can you please tell me which one of these actions groups I can use your "guess value" suggestion in. Sorry I am still very new to this software.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/5 "2024-06-09T18:26:21Z")
> [@mrdj5150](#):
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> Sorry I am still very new to this software.
... and you use the mac version....
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/6 "2024-06-09T18:28:42Z")
> [@mrdj5150](#):
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> I can use your "guess value" suggestion
On the mac it is "Import tag fields"
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### Author:  [@mrdj5150](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mrdj5150)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/7 "2024-06-09T18:29:19Z")
I still need the Key information, but in the DJ software I use (Serato) there is already a Key field. I mainly want to get rid of the key info from the Artist field because when I sort by Artist it is not sorted correctly because the key info is in the Artist field. .
When I tried %initialkey% - %artist% it added "1A" to the beginning of it, but it is probably my error of not knowing how to use the software properly.
Where do I go to enter in "target string"?
Thank you for all the help!
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### Author:  [@mrdj5150](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mrdj5150)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/8 "2024-06-09T18:31:08Z")
Winner winner! Thank you so much!! You've come to the rescue again. I appreciate everyone here in this community. 🙂 Cheers!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-text-before-hyphen/65004/9 "2024-07-09T18:31:59Z")
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