# Removing leading numbers from TITLE field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-leading-numbers-from-title-field/14786
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 6, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-leading-numbers-from-title-field/14786 "2013-06-06T23:53:47Z")
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### Author:  [@c141heaven](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/c141heaven)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-leading-numbers-from-title-field/14786/1 "2013-06-06T23:53:47Z")
I've followed every example in the forum and support discussions. No matter what I do I can't get a regex to work on the TITLE field of an MP3 track. I'm running on 64 bit Win 7.
There are TITLE names such as
01 A Day in The Life
02 Yellow Submarine
All I'm trying to do is get this:
A Day in The Life
Yellow Submarine
(Leading numbers and spaces removed)
I've got an Action created that says this:
Regular Express: "TITLE": "^\s\*\d+\s\*-\s\*" -\> ""
When I run the Action (whether on 1 or many files) it does not work at all.
This USED to work on my older XP machine but has never working on Win 7 for me. I'm running the very latest version of Mp3Tag (2.55a)
I've attached a screen shot of my actions
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-leading-numbers-from-title-field/14786/2 "2013-06-07T03:18:48Z")
> [@c141heaven](#):
>
> ...
> 01 A Day in The Life
> ...
> A Day in The Life
> ...
> Regular Express: "TITLE": "^\s\*\d+\s\*-\s\*" -\> ""
As far as I can see there are not leading spaces in front the number. So the "^\s" is probably too much.
Also you use in this pattern a "\s\*-\s\*" which is " - ": where do you find that in "01 A Day in The Life"? I can see no hyphen.
I would use "Replace with regular expression"
Search:
^\d\d (.\*)
Replace
$1