The "ig" in the modifiers input is a placeholder, not the default. It is displayed as it to let you know 'i' and/or 'g' are possible modifiers. Please try again explicitly specifying "ig" in the input box and it should work.
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 at 16:48 Mark Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to use a MARC modification template to fix the 952$d field > in MARC records we receive from our library supply house. This field > is supposed to be the acquisition date, but is coming to us in the > format YYYY/MM/DD instead of the required YYYY-MM-DD. So I needed to > find a way to replace the slashes with dashes. > > I created a MARC modification template with a simple action that uses > the regular expression s/\//-/ig. The UI for creating the action in > Koha implies that the "ig" modifiers are always used (though there > doesn't seem to be any way to change them). My understanding of the > "g" modifier in Perl is that it causes the s// operator to "replace > globally, that is, all occurrences". (This is a quote from an old > copy of "Programming Perl" by Wall et. al.) > > Yet it doesn't seem that the "g" modifier is really being used. When > I used this template on an imported MARC record, it changed the first > slash in 952$d, but not the second one. So, for example, 2017/11/06 > got changed to 2017-11/06. I had to add a second action to the > template, identical to the first action, to cause the second slash to be > replaced. > > Am I misunderstanding the use of regular expressions in MARC > modification templates, and in particular the behavior of the "g" > modifier? Or is this a possible bug? > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
