# Searching within parentheses and moving only the numbers
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 6, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822 "2011-04-06T14:10:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@kittmaster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kittmaster)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822/1 "2011-04-06T14:10:09Z")
I want to move the BPM numbers only to the BPM field from the file title tag.
I know that \s((.\*)) will remove all inside and the parentheses also.
I can't seem to figure out how to search within and only move the numerical data to the bpm field without the text. Since one file has 3 digits and the other 2, I'm not sure how to do this.
Below are two examples:
Horse & Carriage (feat. Mase) (100 bpm)
Woo Hah! (96 bpm)
Can someone help me figure out how to do this?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822/2 "2011-04-06T14:37:58Z")
This give you the numbers only:
$regexp(%title%,.+((\d+) bpm),$1,1)
And this the rest of the title without the parentheses:
$regexp(%title%,(.+) (\d+ bpm),$1,1)
If you want to format both fields in one go:
Action: Guess Values
Sourceformat: $regexp(%title%,(.+) ((\d+) bpm),$1+++$2,1)
Guessingpattern: %title%+++%bpm%
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### Author:  [@kittmaster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kittmaster)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822/3 "2011-04-06T14:50:19Z")
oh my.....
brilliant and exactly what I was looking for.
I used it as the action, it puts the numbers into the field and nuke it off the title cleanly.
Thank you very much. I will try to understand the script a bit better. I understand the %% operators, the \d operator, and the $ operator, just not the contruction of the syntax to execute the task.
But it is certainly what I needed!
Excellent.....🙂
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### Author:  [@kittmaster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kittmaster)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822/4 "2011-04-06T15:06:47Z")
Ok and to add a monkey wrench I have the same issue with different format:
Mama Said Knock You Out-102
Always On Time-97
Tried to adjust source format to:
$regexp(%title%,(.+) ((\d+)-),$1+++$2,1)
and
$regexp(%title%,(.+) (\d+)-,$1+++$2,1)
but neither worked, I guess I still don't understand enough about the script action.
What am I missing?
☹
Thanks
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822/5 "2011-04-06T16:01:36Z")
> [@kittmaster](#):
>
> Ok and to add a monkey wrench I have the same issue with different format:
>
> Mama Said Knock You Out-102
>
> Always On Time-97
>
> Tried to adjust source format to:
>
> $regexp(%title%,(.+) ((\d+)-),$1+++$2,1)
>
> and
>
> $regexp(%title%,(.+) (\d+)-,$1+++$2,1)
>
> What am I missing?
$regexp(%title%,(.+)-(\d+),$1+++$2,1)
I don't know what you are missing. Both of your strings still have the litteral parentheses (or parts of them) in in them ( and ).
They are not needed here.
And you write -(\d+) but in the examples it's -102 and -97 . With the minus on the left side of the digits.
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### Author:  [@kittmaster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/kittmaster)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822/6 "2011-04-06T17:26:32Z")
> [@pone](#):
>
> $regexp(%title%,(.+)-(\d+),$1+++$2,1)
>
> I don't know what you are missing. Both of your strings still have the litteral parentheses (or parts of them) in in them ( and ).
> They are not needed here.
> And you write -(\d+) but in the examples it's -102 and -97 . With the minus on the left side of the digits.
Your right, that is my lack of knowledge of that area, I was trying to see if I could figure out what to do to fix it without the knowledge of the consequence of the actions I was doing.
I've learned a lot, hopefully this will add to that knowledge base. It works the way I need it, thank you once again!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/searching-within-parentheses-and-moving-only-the-numbers/11822/7 "2026-02-09T12:23:01Z")