Hi folks,
I'm trying to write a routine to construct a text file of OCLC search key from
a group of existing records. What I want is something like:
Brah,vasa/2003
That is 1st four letters of 100 + comma + 1st four letters of 245 + slash +
date.
In principle I have this working with:
Hi Jane:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Jacobs, Jane W wrote:
My result was something like:
Dave,Ayod\2003
Paòt,Kaâs\2002
Baks,Dasa\2003
,Viâs\2002
Problem 1: As you can see, I don't really want the first four characters, I
want the first four SEARCHABLE characters. How
Problem 1: As you can see, I don't really want the first four
characters, I want the first four SEARCHABLE characters. How can I
tell MARC Record to give me the first four characters, excluding
diacritics?
What output would you have rather seen?
Dave,Ayod\2003
Paot, Kaas\2002
]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:30 PM
To: perl4lib@perl.org
Subject: Ignoring Diacritics accessing Fixed Field Data
Hi folks,
I'm trying to write a routine to construct a text file of
OCLC search key from a group of existing records. What I
want is something like:
Brah,vasa/2003
On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:13 PM, Michael Doran wrote:
Assuming that you asking how to strip out the MARC-8 combining diacritic
characters, try inserting the substitution commands listed (as shown below)
just prior to the substr commands:
my $ME = $field-subfield('a');
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-Original Message-
From: Doran, Michael D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:13 PM
To: perl4lib@perl.org
Subject: RE: Ignoring Diacritics accessing Fixed Field Data
Hi Jane,
These answers assume that the data you are processing:
1) is encoded in the MARC
