Here's a decently formatted version of the note I posted a few minutes ago! I can't figure out how to delete the old one.
Oooh, very clever to have caught the bad regex!! However, that line was just an example of the kind of statement I need to write. I had been seeking just to test the OR statement, so I used totally different words instead and it still didn't work.
This works: (=999.*Chemical.*)
This works: (=999.*Educational.*)
This doesn't work, because it didn't catch either 'Chemical' or 'Educational': (=999.*Chemical.*) OR (=999.*Educational.*)
So the "OR" element is the problem. I was using one a screenshot Terry posted last September as a guide, and mine doesn't seem any different in its construction. So I remain stumped, though I'm going to try the pipe suggestion someone else made, and maybe I'll get lucky.
Thanks for your help!
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:57:50 +0000, McDonald, Stephen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I see two things wrong. First, (=999.*Education*) will match "Education" and "Educationn" but not "Educationa". The "n*" is saying "any number of 'n' characters. I believe what you want is (=999.*Education.*), which will match Education followed by any characters.
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>The second things wrong is (=999.*Education*) OR (=999.*Educational*). Assuming that you really mean (=999.*Education.*) OR (=999.*Educational.*), the second parenthetical statement is superfluous. The first statement, (=999.*Education*), will already match both Education and Educational, followed by any other characters or words.
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> Steve McDonald
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>From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Diane Kinney
>Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 1:14 PM
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>Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Using "OR" with "Find/Replace If"
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>Hi, all! Thanks for any help you can give me.
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>Here's the situation:
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>Find: (=710.*)(\$b)(School)(.*)
>Replace: $1$2School of Education$4
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>The "Perform Find/Replace If" is always set to REGEX, and under Search Options "Use regular expressions" is always checked. But:
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>This works: (=999.*Education*)
>This works: (=999.*Educational*)
>This doesn't work: (=999.*Education*) OR (=999.*Educational*)
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>Can anyone spot something I'm doing wrong?
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>Diane Kinney [she/her/hers]
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