Bryan:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:31:59PM -0600, Bryan Baldus wrote:
> When I ran Lint on a file of records, one of the errors I received was "250:
> Subfield _b is not allowed."
The LC doc [1] is meticulously formatted (which is what allows
specs to do what it does). Unfortunately the 250 has a slight defect:
--Edition, Imprint, etc. Fields 250-270--
250 - EDITION STATEMENT (NR)
Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Edition statement (NR)
$b - Remainder of edition statement(NR) <===== HERE
$6 - Linkage (NR)
$8 - Field link and sequence number (R)
Notice how the (NR) following the $b line doesn't have a preceding space
like the other equivalent spots? Well, this threw off the regex in
specs, and caused the 250 $b to not make it into Lint.pm's rules.
Yucky! But it's fixed. Verification before and after with diff show that
it was the only data point that had that problem. So **KUDOS** to you for
catching it.
The fix has been committed to CVS and will go out with the next version
of MARC::Record.
//Ed
[1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdlist.html
