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"Ehlert, Mark K." <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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> On Sep 22, 2016, at 8:11 PM, Terry Reese <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Assuming you are looking to remove a period, ? or asterisk, you need to
> escape these.  Otherwise, it will match any character -- which is what you
> have happening here.  But I guess I'm not quite sure what this is supposed
> to be doing.
> 

It looks like Chris is trying to remove parentheticals from the 020 $a.  I’d try unchecking the “Match case” option as MarcEdit seems to be looking for a lowercase “a” to delete—maybe?

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