Hello,

I'm hoping you can help me with a frustrating puzzle. When I export a file
from Millennium to edit in MarcEdit, a random digit (1-9) gets added to the
beginning of the OCLC number in the 001 when I open the file in MarcEdit.

So instead of the OCLC number looking like this:

=001  ocn820785784

it looks like this when I open the records in MarcEdit:

=001  7ocn820785784

The extra digit makes it impossible to bring the file back into Millennium
and overlay the records. Instead, it inserts the records as though they are
new. 

This _only_ happens with records that have been downloaded from Millennium.
New records are unaffected by this glitch.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Are the mystery digits put there by
Millennium during the export process? Surely MarcEdit wouldn't generate a
number like that?

Is there a regular expression or workaround I can use to remove the stray
digit? 

Thank you for your help!

Cathy

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