# \[X\] Action type Replace

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-action-type-replace/8035
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [March 3, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-action-type-replace/8035 "2009-03-03T15:18:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Dixie-Al](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Dixie-Al](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dixie-Al)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-action-type-replace/8035/1 "2009-03-03T15:18:43Z")

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When redoing the artist tags, I am not permitted to use an ( / or ) as a "regular expression". It seems that I could before but not now. Can not understand why these three chracters are taboo.

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![](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/1/127ffd4c839766b845f136c830929c66bdac3e46.jpg)

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-action-type-replace/8035/2 "2009-03-03T15:39:31Z")

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These must be escaped using the backslash character \ as they are part of the regular expression syntax.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-action-type-replace/8035/3 "2018-12-28T14:24:56Z")

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