# Replacing special Chars
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-special-chars/53917
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 31, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-special-chars/53917 "2021-07-31T08:18:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Dynamix](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dynamix)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-special-chars/53917/1 "2021-07-31T08:18:16Z")
Hi,
I have many songs which have more as one artist or more as one genre. Most of them are separated by "; " (without quotation). But some of them are separated like these: "/" or "" or "//" or "\" while "/" and "//" was easy to replace with an action, it did not work for "" or "\".
I did use the simple replace (no regex, because I am unsure here what to use).
Has anyone an Idea what I can do here?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-special-chars/53917/2 "2021-07-31T09:17:18Z")
see here:
> [@Replacing "//"](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing/15915):
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> I realize this is a simple request and I have tried several different approaches. The frustrating thing is this use to work flawlessly until I upgraded to the current version (2.61a), I was several revisions out of date. Replacing "\\" with "; " The example tag data would be "Mary Ann Kennedy\\Pam Rose\\Pat Bunch" The resulting tag data would be "Mary Ann Kennedy; Pam Rose; Pat Bunch" I created an action using replace (regular expression) which shows as: Regular expression "\_ALL:": "\\" -\> …
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/replacing-special-chars/53917/3 "2026-02-09T12:29:20Z")