Re: Create lists for call #s with multiple |a

["Kyle Banerjee" <banerjek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm looking for a creative Create Lists strategy.  At ignoble moments in
> our departmental history, LC call numbers that suggested multiple
> classifications were allowed to pass into the catalog unedited, thus:
>
> 050 00  Z2014.F4|bM385 1997|aPR821
>
>
> How can I gather the offending records through Create Lists?  Looking for
> call numbers that have |a doesn't work, because the system reads a hidden
> |a in every call number.
>
> Ideas?

    I haven't tried this, but you should be able to use the regular
expression matching capability in create lists to accomplish your task (when
it asks for the Boolean condition, just hit "r")

The search

CALL # MATCHES [0-9,a-z]|a[a-z]

should retrieve all call number fields which contain a digit or numeral
followed by an |a, followed by a letter (i.e. all call number fields with
two call numbers, provided that the first character of the second call
number is a letter)

Hope this helps.

kyle
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