This worked great for my purposes! This allows me to strip out the diacritics from an author's name prior to using it to create the 'Cutter' for a special call number field. Thanks for your help, Terry.
Michael Ayres [log in to unmask]
Technical Services Manager phone : 972-721-2764
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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Reese, Terry
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] Field Placement Using Swap
This may be too greedy, but \{[a-zA-Z]*\} would remove anything between the brackets, so would catch all the bracketed data that you are looking for.
--TR
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> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Ayres
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] Field Placement Using Swap
>
> I'm looking for a way to remove any of the following diacritics that
> may appear in a particular subfield without having to run a separate
> task for each one:
> {acute} {tilde} {uml} {cedil} {circ} {grave} I also need to remove
> the hyphen character, the single quote and the double quote characters.
>
> Is there a regular expression that can accomplish all or part of this
> without resorting to multiple tasks?
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Ayres [log in to unmask]
> Technical Services Manager phone : 972-721-2764
> Irving Public Library fax: 972-721-2329
> 801 W. Irving Blvd.
> Irving, TX 75060
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