RE: printing UTF-8 encoded MARC records with as_usmarc

2012-07-31 Thread Smith,Devon
I just recently came across this presentation which lays out pretty much all the issues with Unicode in perl, and makes some recommendations for best practices. You may find some general insight into the whole situation by going over it.

RE: MARC or metadata related programming exercises?

2011-07-11 Thread Smith,Devon
I don't remember if it focuses on any particular aspect of programming, but you might try the working the Python Challenge[1] in Perl. /dev [1] http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ -Original Message- From: Mike Barrett [mailto:coffeeisl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 4:07 PM To:

RE: Splitting a large file of MARC records into smaller files

2010-01-25 Thread Smith,Devon
This isn't a perl solution, but it may work for you. You can use the unix split command to split a file into several other files with the same number of lines each. For that to work, you'll first have to use tr to convert the ^] record separators into newlines. Then use tr to convert them all