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right truncate a field
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Patricia Hults <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:14:33 -0400
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I need to right truncate a variable length subfield 5 characters from the end.  I think it could be done with a regular expression in the Edit Subfield function, but I can't figure out the syntax.  An example would be to truncate 10/1/1990.  to 1990.  Any suggestions?

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