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Mon, 4 Nov 2013 20:25:56 +0000
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Hello MarcEdit Wisdom

We have a file of 1749 records.  Some of the records have call number prefixes, for example

=082  04$aj153.6/9$223
=082  0\$aj423$223
=082  \\$aJ612 SIL

We want to remove the "j" or "J" prefixes; however if there is a "J" used farther into the tag as the cutter for an author, we want that to remain.

I've been trying different things with the "Edit Subfield" and regular expressions, but I haven't hit the right expression yet.  How do I tell it to remove the first character after $a if the character = j or J?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Lorna Young
Cataloguing Librarian
Toronto District School Board

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