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If you use the Subfield Edit tool, you want to replace the text with nothing. That's probably the easiest way to remove the data. If you can assume that "T " is the first value in the subfield, and occurs nowhere else in the subfield you are working with, you could:
Field: [your field]
Subfield: [your Subfield]
Field data: T
Replace with: [leave blank]
Click Replace Text.
MarcEdit will replace the specified text with nothing -- essentially deleting it. If you hit remove text, it will delete the field (though that seems like a behavior change to me -- because I tried first to just remove the text as well -- I'll look at my code repo. to see if that's the case).
--TR
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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nora Blake
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:10 PM
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Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Removing the first two Characters of a Subfield
Hello,
I'm fairly certain I had a process for this laid out somewhere, but I cannot duplicate it now. I have a set of records with barcodes of varying lengths.
All the barcode numbers start with a T and a space and I need to remove those. When I use the edit subfield tool the process simply removes the entire barcode rather than the starting T and space.
What do I need to do to get rid of the T and space but keep all the rest of the barcode number?
Thanks,
Nora
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