1st post.  Please forgive me if my question is offensively dimwitted.

I am receiving marc records from a vendor that appear to break a simple script I cobbled together using MARC.pm. The error I get is:
Invalid record, leader size not numeric at C:\ereserves\munge.pl line 23.

It was working previously until the vendor upgraded their product and now provide records with longer leaders. Now I get the above error.

Would you point me in the right direction for help?

Thanks,

Ed

The code is as follows:
#!/user/bin/perl
use MARC;



$x = new MARC;
$x->openmarc({file=>"mymarc.dat",'format'=>"usmarc"});

open(OUTFILE, ">export.dat");
close OUTFILE;

while($x->nextmarc(1)){

$x->deletemarc({field=>'856'});
$x->addfield({record=>'1',field=>"856",value=>[3=>"Some reserve materials are online. Follow this link to see if your course materials are available online.",u=>"http://www.lib.unc.edu/reserves/"]});

#  @url = $x->getvalue({record=>'1',field=>'856',subfield=>'u'});
#  print $url[0]."\n";
#  @note = $x->getvalue({record=>'1',field=>'856',subfield=>'a'});
#  print $note[0]."\n";

$x->output({file=>">>export.dat",'format'=>"usmarc"});
$x->deletemarc();
}
$x->closemarc();


The two sample records I am trying to edit are copied into mymarc.dat using the following batch file and then I run munge.pl (Perhaps I'm messing up the numeric value here?):

echo %date% %time% >> log.txt
copy *.mrc mymarc.dat /y >> log.txt
REM del *.mrc
REM munge.pl

They are:

00347nam 2200109z 4500001001000000008004100010100002000051245001300071538003500084856008500119949003300204000029406051101s2005 eng 1 aCortazar, Julio10aBlow-up. aMode of Access: World Wide Web41aBlow-up.uhttp://eres.lib.unc.edu/eres/documentview.aspx?source=marc&docID=29406 cENGL047WdEnglish 47WeDoyne

and:

00352nam 2200109z 4500001001000000008004100010100002900051245001100080538003500091856008300126949003300209000029407051101s2005 eng 1 aDu Maurier, Daphne, Dame10aBirds. aMode of Access: World Wide Web41aBirds.uhttp://eres.lib.unc.edu/eres/documentview.aspx?source=marc&docID=29407 cENGL047WdEnglish 47WeDoyne


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