# Remove trailing apostrophe
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 31, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625 "2024-01-31T04:15:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@djrip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djrip)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625/1 "2024-01-31T04:15:26Z")
How can we do the same thing but with a single trailing apostrophe?
So Cryin' becomes Cryin
I've tried a few variations but it seems to ignore my wishes. I'm obviously guessing wrong.
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### Author:  [@djrip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djrip)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625/2 "2024-01-31T04:56:40Z")
Turns out you need to use ASCII codes and a line break....
The following removes ONLY ALL trailing apostrophes at the end the string, so you will lose your '' if you have a double apostrophe to indicate 7 inch or 12 inch at the end of your TITLE. (i.e 7'' or 12'' - where '' is a double apostrophe (char(39) and not a double quote (char(34) will remove both apostrophes)
[#187]
T=5
1=$trimRight(%TITLE%,$char(39)$char(10))
F=TITLE
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625/3 "2024-01-31T06:40:00Z")
I am not convinced that a $char(10) can always be found in a string.
If you want to get rid or really only the apostrophes at the end of the TITLE, try an action of the type "Format value" or Convert\>Tag-Tag for TITLE and
Format string: `$regexp(%title%,''$,)`
The double apostrophe in the expression escapes the apostrophe which otherwise has a special function in the regular expression.
If, on the other hand you only want to remove the trailing apostrophes in the text but keep the ones at the end of a field, try:
Format string: `$regexp(%title%,''\s+,)`
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625/5 "2024-01-31T09:36:28Z")
The only way I have found is to use several single steps.
Something like
replace the 2 single apostrophes `''` as inches indicator with a rare used character like `§` or `°`
and - after the next unsolved step - "undo" it and replace the rare character back to 2 single apostrophes.
The unsolved step is this:
How to replace the remaining single apostrophes with nothing = delete them?
**Because here we have a problem:**
How do you distinguish between an single UNWANTED apostrophe in
`So Cryin' becomes Cryin`
and a WANTED single apostrophe in
`So O'Reilly remains O'Reilly`
Maybe if you try to replace only a single apostrophe followed by a space?
This will not work for a single apostrophe at the end of line like in
`So at the end you have still Cryin'`
This also not works for (theoretically existing) apostrophes at the start of a word or at start of the line like
`'nuff said and the Klingon's still think there are 's`
Currently, I don't see a reliable way to achieve a solution for most of the occurences.
Any other ideas?
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### Author:  [@djrip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djrip)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625/6 "2024-02-02T02:23:10Z")
With my expression/s above, it does not remove apostrophes in the middle of words, so O'Reilly is safe. I tested it and it doesn't usually remove any at all in the middle, unless I think there was a thing where
Cryin' (Remix) ==\> Cryin (Remix) but that could have been from other code I have in the same Action/
But otherwise the one's in the middle of the string survived
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### Author:  [@djrip](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djrip)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625/7 "2024-02-02T02:25:35Z")
If my code becomes an issue, I shall try this. Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 6:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-trailing-apostrophe/63625/8 "2025-11-10T06:04:14Z")
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