# Remove x characters from -

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-x-characters-from/17534>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 7, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-x-characters-from/17534 "2016-01-07T16:38:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![maxdido](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@maxdido](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/maxdido)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-x-characters-from/17534/1 "2016-01-07T16:38:18Z")

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Hi, I have my Album Tag like this:

Artist Name - Album Name

I would like to change this to just Album Name. So I want to remove all characters before - and the whitespace after -

Can someone help me with a regular expression  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-x-characters-from/17534/2 "2016-01-07T17:16:07Z")

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Define an action:  
Type: Guess Values  
Source Format: %album%  
Guessing Pattern: %dummy% - %album%

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**Author:** ![maxdido](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@maxdido](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/maxdido)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-x-characters-from/17534/3 "2016-01-07T17:52:40Z")

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Thanks, That works.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/remove-x-characters-from/17534/4 "2026-02-09T12:26:02Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC