Terry,
Thank you, this worked. I knew it was something simple.
Nora
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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Reese, Terry
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] Removing the first two Characters of a Subfield
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
-----Original Message-----
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
To: [log in to unmask]
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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Nora Blake
MassCat Manager
Massachusetts Library System
P.O. Box 609
South Deerfield, MA 01373-0241
508-357-2121 x123
866-627-7228
Email: [log in to unmask]
AIM: noraatmls
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