Sonny Software

I've been playing around with my new copy of Bookends for a few days now (great program, btw). I created a new import filter which works almost like a charm, but there are a couple of small issues.
I'm importing records from WebSPIRS, which doesn't seem to be quite the same as SilverPlatter WebSPIRS. One of their fields looks like this:

SOURCE: Philosophy-. JA 75; 50: 101-103

I used the Source option to create a special filter for this, where source1tag was "SOURCE:", then collect from first character to "." as Journal Title, then to ";" as date, then to ":" for volume, then to end for page #.

As far as I can tell, that's exactly what I'm supposed to do. But when I actually do the import, I get things like "; 50" in the volume field, or ": 101-103" in the page field. It doesn't seem to get rid of the punctuation or the space before the info.
This is hardly a huge problem, as I can fairly happily do that manually, but I thought it was supposed to be automatic. Is there some checkbox I haven't checked or something? According to the user guide, this shouldn't be happending, but it certainly seems to be...

Marcus

Hi Enkidu,

You are doing everything correctly, almost. When you reach the punctuation, in the next entry you must *ignore* until the next thing you want to collect.

In your example, collect to . into Title. Then Ignore until letter. Then collect until ; as date (or whatever you like). This adds a little work, but it gives you much more flexibility.

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks! Knew I was missing something simple! And thanks for a wonderful response time too!