I wondered if any of you had run into similar problems, or if you had
any thoughts on how to tackle this particular issue.
It's ironic that MARC::Record *used* to do what Andrew suggests: using
split() rather than
than substr() with the actual directory lengths. The reason for the
switch was
Most MARC utilities like MARC::Record depend upon the actual directory lengths
and having well formed structure. Isn't that what standards are for? But
sometimes you really do get badly formed MARC records and need to recover the
data. The presented code does have two caveats, which I
