Strip leading numbers and dash

Support
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Hello all,

How do I strip leading numbers and dash from the TITLE tag?

I've done filename > tag, now I'd like to use 'replace with regex' to strip the leading numbers and dash from the TITLE tag.

Sorry, this has probably been asked a zillion times before (even by me!), but google search led me down a rabbit hole of confusion!!

Do I need something in the regular expression box and something in the 'replace matches with' box?

format is: ' 01-Concert Intro '

2

sorted (for this case anyway)...

simply removed the first three characters from the title tag with:

^.{3}
3

Or see here - as it is safer to look for digits than just any character

4

thanks (admittedly i was a bit ham-fisted)

The format of no spaces between number, dash and track title is a bit of a bugger.

Normally I can do filename > tag ' %track% %dummy% ' to get track numbers.

In this case I had to do replace with regex: _FILENAME,
Regex:
(?<!\s)-|-(?!\s)

Replace with:
" - "

then I was able to do the usual filename > tag for the track numbers.

5

With
%dummy%-%title%
should also lead to success
Or a regular expression like
\d+\s*-\s*
would delete the leading number and a hyphen with or without spaces if you leave the "Replace with" empty.

6

This only works for exactly the first 3 characters at the beginning of a TITLE tag.

This will NOT work as expected for this examples:
01-Concert Intro -> -Concert Intro
1-Concert Intro -> oncert Intro
123-Concert Intro -> -Concert Intro

It does not look for a dash and not for various amount of digits.

Please be careful with this "solution".

7

This only works for filenames with a space in the filename.
01-Concert Intro with %track% %dummy% would lead to have 01-Concerto in TRACK