On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:53:04PM +0100, Leif Andersson wrote: > Recently on this list it was discussed whether letters as indicators > should be allowed or not. As I understood it, it was concluded that > Field.pm and USMARC.pm should be fixed to allow for this. > > Good, our national dialect of the MARC format includes letters as indicators > at some positions.
Ok, this change has been committed to CVS and will go out with the next version of MARC::Record. Sometimes it helps to add the feature request to MARC::Record's queue at rt.cpan.org so that the developers won't forget about it! > Currently, if USMARC.pm considers any indicator is to be illegal, both > indicators will be changed into blanks! I couldn't replicate this with the latest version of MARC::Record. I did add a test to the test suite to make sure that it is never the case though. //Ed
