# Shorten Words

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/shorten-words/16313>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 9, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/shorten-words/16313 "2014-11-09T23:50:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![CarlosEnrique](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@CarlosEnrique](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/CarlosEnrique)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/shorten-words/16313/1 "2014-11-09T23:50:09Z")

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Hello. Please excuse my english. Is not that good.  
I am a new user of mp3tag and is really awesome. Thank you very much for this useful and great work.

Unfortunately i am just learning about regular expressions, so this is my issue:  
I want to shorten the Artist Name and Title name this way;

1. Artist Name.  
a. I want to preserve only the first letter for all words with maximum 3 letters  
b. Then for the rest of the words i want to preserve the first 3 letters:

2. Title Name. I want to preserve only the first Letter of every word except for the last word. Last word would not be shortened. Titles with just one word would remain unchanged.

Well, i hope you could help me.

Thank you very much pals.

Carlos Enrique.

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