Thanks again Walter (and Sue). The script below does everything I need it to.

Anne Newnham
Assistant librarian, Cataloguing
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand


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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nickeson, Walter
Sent: Saturday, 10 December 2011 2:33 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Convert 300 field to provider neutral

Sorry, I neglected that part. This expression will remove subfield $c
and the ISBD punctuation (space-colon or space-semicolon) preceding it:

Find: (=300.*)( .\$c.*)
Replace: $1

To add a period at the end of the field if there isn't one:

Find: (=300.*)([^\.])$
Replace: $1$2.

This checks that the last character in the line is NOT a period, and if
that's the case, adds one. If you don't want to add a period after a
right parenthesis you'd change the Find to:

Find: (=300.*)([^\.\)])$

but I think simply removing subfield $c and the punctuation preceding it
ought to be sufficient.

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