On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
On 1/30/09 4:39 PM, "Jay Luker" <[email protected]> wrote:
$r = do { local $/; <C> };
Explained here:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=287647
As long as I can afford the RAM (a batch of MARC records might be 10's or
100's of megabytes in size), this looks like the best solution. Thanks.
Is there a seperator between MARC records?
If so, you can set $/ to that, and you'll get one MARC record at a time.
If the record seperator is an empty line, you'll probably want to read
'perlvar' in perldocs ... search for 'INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR' for the
difference between setting it to '' vs "\n\n":
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html
-Joe
