# %track% in xx/XX format
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591
**Category:** Export
**Created:** [April 7, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591 "2008-04-07T18:55:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Frobozz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Frobozz)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/1 "2008-04-07T18:55:23Z")
I'm starting to play with the exports to see what I can do.
Is it standard that the %track% export placeholder always outputs in the format of xx/XX? Where xx is the track number and XX is the total number of tracks.
I was expecting %track% to give me just the track number, but I'm getting it in xx/XX format.
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### Author:  [@cimnine](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cimnine)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/2 "2008-04-08T05:17:45Z")
%track% will return you exactly what you enterd as "Track"-tag in the file. So if the value was "12/20" it will return "12/20". And if the value was "12" it will return 12.
br
Chris
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/3 "2008-04-08T06:38:02Z")
Use $num(%track%,2) to get the tracks before '/'
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### Author:  [@Frobozz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Frobozz)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 8:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/4 "2008-04-08T08:04:11Z")
> [@cimnine](#):
>
> %track% will return you exactly what you enterd as "Track"-tag in the file. So if the value was "12/20" it will return "12/20". And if the value was "12" it will return 12.
> br
> Chris
I thought that might be how it is. Unfortunately it seems that all of my files are in xx/XX format. They've been ripped using several different ripping tools and all of those tools have done the track tag in the same xx/XX format.
So I can't rely on %track% giving me just the track number and not something in the xx/XX format.
I ended up using a regular expression in the export script to clean up the %track% output.
$regexp(%track%,/.\*,)
That strips away the "/" and everything to the right of it and leaves just the track number.
I have MP3Tag exporting an XML format file. Now I'll have to see what I can do with it.
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### Author:  [@fatuus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fatuus)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/5 "2008-04-09T05:51:33Z")
Hi
need some help with $regexp...
now i have track like xx/XX
1/10
2/10
3/10
...
10/10
But i want all with a leading 0, like
01/10
02/10
and also if
01/08 insted of 1/8
if i use
$regexp(%track%,(\d+),0$1)
the i will end up
01/011
011/011
?
Some one that knows these things?!
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### Author:  [@Frobozz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Frobozz)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/6 "2008-04-09T06:58:30Z")
$num($regexp(%track%,/.\*,),2)/$num(%\_total%,2)
or
$num(%track%,2)/$num(%\_total%,2)
will do that. I only gave them a quick test. You'll want to verify they work with a variety of inputs.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/7 "2008-04-09T07:47:25Z")
Well, I do it this way:
Begin Actionsgroup **Format TRACK 'nn[slash]nn'**
Action #1
_Actiontype 4:_ **Replace with regular expression**
_Field:_ **TRACK**
_Regular expression:_ **(\d\*)/(\d\*)**
_Replace matches with:_ **$num($1,2)/$num($2,2)**
[\_] case sensitive comparison
End Actionsgroup **Format TRACK 'nn[slash]nn'** (1 Action)
DD.20080409.1146.CEST
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### Author:  [@fatuus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fatuus)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/8 "2008-04-09T12:53:00Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Well, I do it this way:
> Begin Actionsgroup **Format TRACK 'nn[slash]nn'**
> Action #1
> _Actiontype 4:_ **Replace with regular expression**
> _Field:_ **TRACK**
> _Regular expression:_ **(\d\*)/(\d\*)**
> _Replace matches with:_ **$num($1,2)/$num($2,2)**
>
> [\_] case sensitive comparison
>
> End Actionsgroup **Format TRACK 'nn[slash]nn'** (1 Action)
>
> DD.20080409.1146.CEST
thx! great!
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### Author:  [@Frobozz](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Frobozz)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/9 "2008-04-10T06:27:26Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> Well, I do it this way:
More that one way to skin a cat.
I was assuming he wanted to format the export output rather than changing the actual value in the tags.
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### Author:  [@fatuus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/fatuus)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/track-in-xx-xx-format/6591/10 "2008-04-10T06:40:35Z")
> [@Frobozz](#):
>
> More that one way to skin a cat.
> I was assuming he wanted to format the export output rather than changing the actual value in the tags.
but your was nice to have too! 🙂