# Using Actions to remove a new line?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 17, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605 "2011-10-17T18:20:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@sigrun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigrun)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605/1 "2011-10-17T18:20:23Z")
What do I use to represent a newline in an "Action"?
For example:
If I copy and paste the names of a band members into the comments field from a source that included separate lines for each name, how do I use an action to remove those new lines...
If that makes sense.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605/2 "2011-10-17T18:32:27Z")
Action: Format Value
Field: COMMENT
Formatstring: $regexp(%comment%,\n,; )
This replaces a linebreak with "; ". You can replace this with whatever you want in your new one line comment instead of a line break.
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### Author:  [@sigrun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigrun)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605/3 "2011-10-17T18:51:23Z")
> [@pone](#):
>
> Action: Format Value
> Field: COMMENT
> Formatstring: $regexp(%comment%,\n,; )
>
> This replaces a linebreak with "; ". You can replace this with whatever you want in your new one line comment instead of a line break.
That works, Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@sigrun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/sigrun)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605/4 "2011-10-21T17:59:36Z")
I am having an issue with this now.
If I apply the action and then move a through the words I notice the cursor still acts like there is something there; where the words had previously been on a new line.
For example I had a line like this:
Hard Rock
Blues Rock
I then used an action to make the line like this:
"Hard Rock" "Blues-Rock"
But when I search iTunes for "Blues-Rock" (with quotation marks) I don't get any results. Where as I do get a result if I search "Blues-Rock (with the first quotation mark), because there is an invisible extra character in between the k and " .
Is their a way to fix this??
thanks!
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605/5 "2011-10-21T19:20:32Z")
Mp3tag linebreaks are \r\n
You should have used this
$regexp(%comment%,\r\n,; )
Might have to run this
$regexp(%comment%,\r,)
to fix it.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605/6 "2011-10-22T00:34:26Z")
> [@sigrun](#):
>
> What do I use to represent a newline in an "Action"? ... how do I use an action to remove those new lines ...
You might want to use ...
Action: Format value
Field: COMMENT
Formatstring: **$regexp(%COMMENT%,'[\r\n]+',';')**
DD.20111022.0435.CEST
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-actions-to-remove-a-new-line/12605/7 "2026-02-09T12:23:23Z")