# Replacing \\\\ in a tag

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-in-a-tag/12410
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 19, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-in-a-tag/12410 "2011-08-19T15:31:50Z")
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### Author: ![pontoonman22](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@pontoonman22](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pontoonman22)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-in-a-tag/12410/1 "2011-08-19T15:31:50Z")

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I have a bunch of tags in the form: NAME1\\NAME2 (no spaces between the names). I want to replace the \\ with a ; or space. I've tried using the replace action with no luck (no changes are made). I've used the replace action many times, so I'm wondering if I need to precede the \\ with some other symbol. If it is documented somewhere, I missed seeing it. Thanks for any help.

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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: [August 19, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-in-a-tag/12410/2 "2011-08-19T15:51:29Z")

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> [@pontoonman22](#):
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> I have a bunch of tags in the form: NAME1\\NAME2 (no spaces between the names).

The double-backslash creates several instances of the tag - have a look at the extended tags and you will find two tags with the same name, one with the contents NAME1 and one with NAME2.

The only way I could think of merging these two is to format the tag field with the contents of the $meta function:  
e.g. if you found NAME1\\NAME2 in artist you would format the tag-field artist with  
$meta(artist,0) $meta(artist,1)

I cannot think of a more elegant, more universal way.

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### Author: ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-in-a-tag/12410/3 "2011-08-19T16:53:44Z")

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There is a extra action for this:

Action: **Merge dublicat fields**  
Field: **\_ALL**  
Seperator: " **;**" _(without quotes, just to show the space at the end)_

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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: [August 19, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-in-a-tag/12410/4 "2011-08-19T19:04:22Z")

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Thank you.

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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, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-in-a-tag/12410/5 "2026-02-09T12:23:17Z")

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