That worked well!
Thanks!
JJ
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A bulletin from the "haste makes waste" department...
> $ME =~ s/[\xE1-\xFE]//g;
> $TITLE =~ s/[\xE1-\xFE]//g;
Ooops, that should be "E0" instead of "E1" as the first hex value in the
substitutions:
$ME =~ s/[\xE0-\xFE]//g;
On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:13 PM, Michael Doran wrote:
>Assuming that you asking how to strip out the MARC-8 combining diacritic
characters, try inserting the substitution >commands listed (as shown below)
just prior to the substr commands:
>> my $ME = $field->subfield('a');
>
Hi Jane,
These answers assume that the data you are processing:
1) is encoded in the MARC-8 character set, and
2) consists of the MARC-8 default basic and extended Latin characters.
> Dave,Ayod\2003
> Paòt,Kaâs\2002
> Baks,Dasa\2003
> ,Viâs\2002
>
> Problem 1: As you can see, I don't really want
> Problem 1: As you can see, I don't really want the first four
> characters, I want the first four SEARCHABLE characters. How can I
> tell MARC Record to give me the first four characters, excluding
> diacritics?
What output would you have rather seen?
Dave,Ayod\2003
Paot, Kaas\2002
Hi Jane:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Jacobs, Jane W wrote:
> My result was something like:
>
> Dave,Ayod\2003
> Paòt,Kaâs\2002
> Baks,Dasa\2003
> ,Viâs\2002
>
> Problem 1: As you can see, I don't really want the first four characters, I
> want the first four SEARCHABLE characters.
Hi folks,
I'm trying to write a routine to construct a text file of OCLC search key from
a group of existing records. What I want is something like:
Brah,vasa/2003
That is 1st four letters of 100 + comma + 1st four letters of 245 + slash +
date.
In principle I have this working with:
open(
