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At 10:33 PM 11/25/2010 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Can someone help with a regular expression?  I have to remove the ending 
>period from over 9,000 field 949s (we created the 949 field with data from 
>the 830 to map to our holding records) and there are several variations of 
>the text, here are some examples.
>=949  \\$jMicrofilm G703 reel 906, no. 7541.1.
>=949  \\$jMicrofilm G703 6235.1.
>=949  \\$jMicrofilm G703 reel 291, no. 1959.

\.$   ("escape character", full stop|period, "end of line") should do the 
trick, but beware if there are any blank spaces after the "."

Paul 

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