Carlos,

Make sure that in the second set of parenthesis in the regular expression you're searching for that you have a space before the asterisk.  When it came through the first time it wasn't easy to see the space in my email.

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of carlos
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:01 AM
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Subject: Re: Deleting whitespace at the end of a line

Thanks Terry

I think I can follow the logic of this:
find
	the block (=001  )
	any sequence of alphanumericals
	any sequence of spaces to the end of the line
replace with
        the block (=001  )
        any sequence of alphanumericals

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work ("0 modifications were made").

c.


On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Reese, Terry wrote:

> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:26:08 -0800
> From: "Reese, Terry" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
>     <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Deleting whitespace at the end of a line
>
> Assuming that the 001 is like this:
> =001  12321312[spaces]
>
> you could do this in the normal replace:
> Find:    (=001  )([a-zA-Z0-9]*)( *$)
> Replace: $1$2
>
> Check the regular expression option
>
> Replace All.
>
> --TR
>
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> Terry Reese
> The Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services
> Oregon State University Libraries
> Corvallis, OR  97331
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters on behalf of carlos
> Sent: Mon 11/23/2009 3:50 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Deleting whitespace at the end of a line
>
> Hi folks
>
> We've been doing a lot of database cleanup so that we can export records
> to the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD, run by the
> National Library of Australia). One of the aims o all this cleanup is to
> make sure as many of our records match existing ANBD records as possible.
>
> It's possible that trailing blank spaces in the 001 tag may make matching
> difficult. How would we go about deleting blank spaces at the end of 001
> using MarcEdit and regular expressions?
>
> Regard
> Carlos.
>
>

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The Dalton McCaughey Library
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Parkville, Vic. 3052
Australia
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Fax: +61 3 93408889
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