[IUG] Holdings cleanup with Regular Expressions

[Geoffrey Skinner <geoffrey dot skinner at sonoma dot edu>]

I'm trying to identify problems in our serials holdings statements using 
RegEx. We apparently have quite a few that look like:

   v.13 (1981/1982)-24:2 (1993)-33:3 (2003)

...which is ambiguous, to say the least. I want to identify all the 
instances of the pattern:

   enum (chron)-enum (chron)-enum (chron)

I have tried various strategies, without full success. My latest:

         HOLDINGS  MARC Tag 866|a  matches  "[)]-.*[^;-][)]-"   
   OR HOLDINGS  MARC Tag 867|a  matches  "[)]-.*[^;-][)]-"

partially worked, but also picked up:

   v.41 no.1-3 (1974);v.42 (1975)-v.70 no.2 (2003)

I'm obviously not there yet and wondered if anyone (Richard?) had 
suggestions for refining the query.

Thanks!
--Geoffrey
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Geoffrey Skinner
Technical Services Coordinator
Sonoma State University Library
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
skinnerg at sonoma dot edu
707-664-3310 (phone)
707-664-2876 (fax)

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