On Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:59 AM, arvinport...@lycos.com
[mailto:arvinport...@lycos.com] wrote:
>I could have sworn I have processed MARC records containing newlines with no
>problems in the past (I.e., not records converted from XML), though I've never
>tried to validate them with MARCEdit.
...
>Looks like MARC::Record is doing its job correctly. Perhaps changing
>MARC::File::XML is in order.
MARC::File::USMARC includes a line in sub _next:
# remove illegal garbage that sometimes occurs between records
$usmarc =~ s/^[ \x00\x0a\x0d\x1a]+//;
If I remember correctly, I believe this was added a few years ago in response
to similar questions about new lines appearing in records (or after someone
experienced problems with new lines and/or end-of-file characters in files of
records--the new line removal may have always been there; I think I may have
added 1A after finding it in some files I was working with).
I'm not familiar with MARC::File::XML to know how it deals with end of line
characters.
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