On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:26 AM, Mary Llewellyn wrote:
>I'd like to change the order of subfields in a tag 852.
>Currently, the order is $t $p 4j $c $d $z $g. I would like to move $z to the end. I am inexperienced in the ways of regular expressions, so the examples I found by googling don't seem to work when I try to adapt them to my situation.
>I tried  Find with (=852.{4})(\$d.*[^/\$])(/\$z.*[^$])(\$g.*)
>Replace with $1$2$4 $3
>It didn't work. What should I do instead?

I don't know if this will work in all cases for your data, but it seemed to work for a simple version I tried:

I started with:
=852  \\$ttest$ptest2$jsomestuff$cotherstuff$dstillmore$zmove me to the end!$gI was last now I'm not.

Find/replace with "Use regular expressions":

Find: (=852.{4})(.+\$d.*)(\$z.+)(\$g.+)

Replace: $1$2$4$3

Ended up with:
=852  \\$ttest$ptest2$jsomestuff$cotherstuff$dstillmore$gI was last now I'm not.$zmove me to the end!

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I hope this helps,

Bryan Baldus
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses
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