# Splitting various entries of a field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-various-entries-of-a-field/16858
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [April 27, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-various-entries-of-a-field/16858 "2015-04-27T13:14:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@gertsg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gertsg)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-various-entries-of-a-field/16858/1 "2015-04-27T13:14:12Z")
I have a list of 40.000 songs. In the composer field I have included the names of both composers and lyricists. Could you please let me know how to split them using the composer and lyricist fields.
Now : Composer field AAA\\BBB
I want them as follows :
- composer field : AAA
- lyricist field : BBB
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-various-entries-of-a-field/16858/2 "2015-04-27T14:02:30Z")
As the double-backslash is also an indicator for a multi-value field, we first have to clarify if you have two composer fields, one filled with "AAA" and the other with "BBB": open the extended tags dialogue to see if there are 2 composer fields.
If you have 2 composer fields, then apply an action of the type "Merge duplicate fields" for COMPOSER first and use a unique separator like the underscore \_ as separator.
As a result of this step you should have only 1 composer field with the contents
AAA\_BBB
For this COMPOSER field you apply an action of the type "Import field (Guess value)":
Guessing pattern: %composer%\_%lyricist%
You can join both actions in an action group and execute them in one go.
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### Author:  [@gertsg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gertsg)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-various-entries-of-a-field/16858/3 "2015-04-27T14:26:25Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> As the double-backslash is also an indicator for a multi-value field, we first have to clarify if you have two composer fields, one filled with "AAA" and the other with "BBB": open the extended tags dialogue to see if there are 2 composer fields.
>
> If you have 2 composer fields, then apply an action of the type "Merge duplicate fields" for COMPOSER first and use a unique separator like the underscore \_ as separator.
> As a result of this step you should have only 1 composer field with the contents
> AAA\_BBB
>
> For this COMPOSER field you apply an action of the type "Import field (Guess value)":
> Guessing pattern: %composer%\_%lyricist%
>
> You can join both actions in an action group and execute them in one go.
Great!!!! Thanks a lot