# Removing "the" from multi artists

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-the-from-multi-artists/55943
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 18, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-the-from-multi-artists/55943 "2022-01-18T14:20:30Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-the-from-multi-artists/55943/12 "2022-01-18T17:37:16Z")

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> [@dp19](#):
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> content from one field to another

Like described in the FAQs?

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/15):
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> How to copy one field value to another field? Example how to copy the content of the ARTIST field to the ALBUMARTIST field: Create a [new action](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions/967/2) in an existing action group or make a new action group. Action type: Format value Field: ALBUMARTIST Format string: %artist% Note: If you want to copy all possible values of a field (in case you have multiple artist fields), the internal scripting function [$meta\_sep](https://docs.mp3tag.de/scripting) can be used in the format string, e.g., $meta\_sep(artist,\\\\)

please consider to open a new thread, if you have further questions on this problem.

BTW: the FAQs also show how to remove trailing or leading spaces ...

> [@Actions and batch-operations](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/actions-and-batch-operations/967/10):
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> How to remove/trim leading and trailing spaces [Video tutorial for these actions](http://www.vimeo.com/7756545) Leading spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: \_TAG Regular expression: ^\s+ Replace matches with: ^ matches the beginning of the string. Then \s+ searches for all whitespaces till a different char occurs. The whitespaces found will be replaced by nothing and, thus, deleted. Trailing spaces: Action type: Replace with regular expressions Field: \_TAG Regular expression: \s+$ Replace matc…

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