Changing delimiter from $ to dagger easily

Polaris
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Hello,

Is there a quick, easy way to change the delimiter when I copy/paste a record from another source while cataloging? The source is using $, but I use the dagger. If I copy and paste a record from a source that I can’t download and import, I have to change every line from $ to a dagger manually. Can it be done in a bulk search change? Or, is there a way to download or paste into marc edit from a source that is not a z39 source?

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If you are trying to extract records out of your Polaris ILS to bring into MARCEdit, you can export them from the desktop client using this process. It isn’t great and has its limitations, but it is possible. The other possibility is using SimplyReports.

For Leap, the MARC Export feature is coming in 8.0 - you should make comments with any use cases you have on that item to help with the development of the feature.

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Hello,

Would something like this work? An autohotkey script that finds/replaces any $s in the source with † symbols? (Or ‡ if needed, just swap it out below.) It’s set to use F6 currently instead of ctrl + c but that could be changed.

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

F6::
{
A_Clipboard := ""
Send '^c'
ClipWait 1
A_Clipboard := StrReplace(A_Clipboard, "$", "†")

}
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Thanks for going the extra mile @ebrondermajor ! I was trying to think of a clipboard manager style solution to suggest, but didn’t know that Autohokey supported this kind of manipulation. Excellent suggestion & sample code.