# Strip last 4 characters away from Title field
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-last-4-characters-away-from-title-field/6073
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-last-4-characters-away-from-title-field/6073 "2008-01-15T10:50:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@christian\_s](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/christian_s)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-last-4-characters-away-from-title-field/6073/1 "2008-01-15T10:50:47Z")
Hi,
I'm importing tags from a txt file and I would like to exclude the last 4 charecters that currently goes into the title field.
I've been trying something like this in Actions
$left(%title%, $len(%title%)-4)
my idea was that
$len(%title%): returns the lenght of title field, ex 20 characters.
$len(%title%)-4: then returns 16
$left(%title%, 16) should then give me the first 16 characters for the title string.
But when I try to create a replace action I can get it too work.
Any ideas to what action type and how I should go about building this action is greatly appreciated
- Chr
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 11:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-last-4-characters-away-from-title-field/6073/2 "2008-01-15T11:43:53Z")
Try this action:
_Action type:_ **Format value**
_Field:_ **TITLE**
_Formatstring:_ **$left(%title%,$sub($len(%title%),4))**
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### Author:  [@christian\_s](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/christian_s)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-last-4-characters-away-from-title-field/6073/3 "2008-01-15T11:44:43Z")
ah - ok. thanks Florian!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/strip-last-4-characters-away-from-title-field/6073/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:42Z")