MARCEDIT-L Archives

July 2016

MARCEDIT-L@LISTSERV.GMU.EDU

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Jeff Edmunds <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:29:11 -0400
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (70 lines)
Thanks Terry. I think this will work. The data I listed *is* all the data in the subfield (in this case, 260$c).

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Reese" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 1:00:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] regex help

I haven't had a chance to try it -- but assuming that this is like data in the single subfield -- you could use something like:
(.*)(\d{4})(.*)

Or 

(.*)([0-9]{4})(.*)

And then keep just the data in $2.  

That assumes that this is all the data in the subfield.  If it isn't, then this would get, much, much harder.


--tr

-----Original Message-----
From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Edmunds
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 12:54 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] regex help

Can anyone suggest a regex that would flip several flavors of inconsistent date date into simply YYYY?

In other words, I have

1968
Jan 1968
Jul 1967
Mar 1965
"1 Mar 1966"
"31 Apr. 1968"
Sep. 1966

and I want to end up with

1968
1968
1967
1965
1966
1968
1966

Stated differently, I want to strip out everything but the (always 4-digit) year. There are no other instances of 4 consecutive digits in the data.

Thanks,

Jeff

________________________________________________________________________

This message comes to you via MARCEDIT-L, a Listserv(R) list for technical and instructional support in MarcEdit.  If you wish to communicate directly with the list owners, write to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send a message "SIGNOFF MARCEDIT-L" to [log in to unmask]

________________________________________________________________________

This message comes to you via MARCEDIT-L, a Listserv(R) list for technical and instructional support in MarcEdit.  If you wish to communicate directly with the list owners, write to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send a message "SIGNOFF MARCEDIT-L" to [log in to unmask]

________________________________________________________________________

This message comes to you via MARCEDIT-L, a Listserv(R) list for technical and instructional support in MarcEdit.  If you wish to communicate directly with the list owners, write to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send a message "SIGNOFF MARCEDIT-L" to [log in to unmask]

ATOM RSS1 RSS2