At 16:58 7/05/2005, Andrew Houghton wrote:
The code is off the top of my head and parts have been copied from a
variety of Perl scripts I had hanging around. It isn't tested, but
hopefully a start for your work.
Thanks, Andy, there's a lot there that I can put to good use. Much more
elegant
Ron Davies wrote:
Has anybody ever seen a MARC record where the order of the field data
wasn't the same as that of the entries in the directory? I'm not
questioning the logic of reading a record using the field lengths and
offsets, just wondering if anybody had ever seen this occur in the wild.
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
so you can output the MARC record with the fields in
the same order as the original. Things are never ideal when you have corrupt
MARC records...
Andy.
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