Have at it! I do most of my manipulations with perl scripts, so I understand what you are talking about.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Mark Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Joy Nelson's message of 2016-08-29 09:25:05 -0500: > > If you don't have MarcEdit, I would suggest getting a copy. > > I did look at that briefly. It looks like a decent tool, but I was a > bit put off by the Mono requirement. Plus I wasn't sure it was > capable of doing the regexp matching / mass modification / consistency > checking stuff I'm doing in my own Ruby scripts. > > As an example, I've written some code to figure out the Koha item type > from various fields in our MARC records. I'm learning that our > records are not consistent by any means. Sometimes a DVD is marked as > such in 245$h (with wildly varying strings), sometimes in 347$b > (again, with lots of variants), and sometimes in 852$h. It was pretty > simple to write some code to check for these various fields and do the > right thing. > > I realize that this approach might look crazy, but I'm a Unix guy > from way back in the 80s, and old habits die hard :-) . > -- Joy Nelson Director of Migrations ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Office: Fort Worth, TX Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/> _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
