Remove Trailing Special Characters

DetlevD · March 14, 2014, 6:18am

Text with "boxes" in singe-line tag fields is not automatic, this can be introduced for example by copy & paste.

In most cases, these are the non-displayable control characters CR for "carriage return" or LF for "line feed", as used in multi-line texts as end of line, sometimes it is the control character for TAB "tabulator".

How 'ohrenkino' in post #2 already said, the box characters can also be readable foreign text, or graphical symbols, but can not be represented correctly by the current screen font, so that just such a box character appears as a replacement.

In case of CR or LF you can use the Mp3tag trimming functions, e. g. ...

$trimRight(%COMPOSER%,$char(13)$char(10))

... or a regexp function, which removes all non-word characters at end of the string ...

$regexp(%COMPOSER%,'\W*\Z',)