# Removing numbers in artist field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 24, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663 "2009-07-24T17:08:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Slofe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Slofe)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663/1 "2009-07-24T17:08:35Z")
For some reason loads of names in the artist field have the track number after as well. Like The Cure7, NOFX12 etc. Anyway to get rid of these numbers in one go?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2009, 9:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663/2 "2009-07-25T09:40:16Z")
You can use a Replace with regular expressions actions to remove all numbers from a field.
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### Author:  [@Slofe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Slofe)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2009, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663/3 "2009-07-25T11:51:33Z")
Care to elaborate please? I don't really know what i'm doing 
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### Author:  [@Slofe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Slofe)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663/4 "2009-07-28T14:15:23Z")
Can anyone help please? I really don't know what is meant by replace with regular expression. Well I do know but I have no idea what to write in the regular expression box, whatever I write seems to have no effect  thanks.
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### Author:  [@newser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/newser)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663/5 "2009-07-28T15:31:09Z")
Try this:
_Name of action group:_ **remove numbers**
_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expression**
_Field:_ **ARTIST**
_Regular expression:_ **(.+?)(\d\*)**
_Replace matches with:_ **$1**
[] case-sensitive comparison
[remove\_numbers.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0b98fad5c840cd2a721536ecc3314db9bca3fe6a.zip) (188 Bytes)
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### Author:  [@Slofe](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Slofe)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663/6 "2009-07-31T08:28:00Z")
> [@newser](#):
>
> Try this:
>
> _Name of action group:_ **remove numbers**
>
> _Action type:_ **Replace with regular expression**
> _Field:_ **ARTIST**
> _Regular expression:_ **(.+?)(\d\*)**
> _Replace matches with:_ **$1**
>
> [] case-sensitive comparison
Yeah that got it 🙂
Nice one, pal. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-numbers-in-artist-field/8663/7 "2026-02-09T12:21:40Z")