Noth, Cataloging standards allow the inclusion of the qualifiers at the end of the 020 field. It allows a person to distinguish between paperback, hard cover, and all the other variations that would produce a different ISBN. Koha should not be adding the dashes back into the ISBN. For one thing, it does not know where to put them. An ISBN search should be exact match with right truncation. That way the descriptive text can stay and still not mess up a search. Sincerely, David Bigwood bigwood@lpi.usra.edu Lunar & planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml Check out our weekly podcast, now over a year old. -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Noth Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:33 AM To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Cleaning characters from isbn data Hi All, I've imported my data using bulkmarcimport.pl and it looks as though the old system/librarian has added some garbage characters to the end of the isbn number. Nothing too serious but it means that the majority of the book searches fail. An example of a isbn: 0-958760-497 (pbk.-) Unfortunatly the characters arent all the same so a simple find and replace on the 4000+ records isn't going to do the trick. Its obvious that Koha already does some conversion on the isbn (since the "-" symbols weren't in there before) and I'm wondering where it does this, so that I can add some code to clean garbage characters (i'm thinking that removal of characters after a space is detected should do the trick) or if anyone has done something like this before? Great system by the way. Cheers, Noth -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cleaning-characters-from-isbn-data-tf3146978.html# a8724017 Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha