Re: MARC::Record elementary question?
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:02:20PM -0500, John D Thiesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What I have appears to be 5.00402, so maybe that's the primary problem. I That's the problem. 5.004 is very old, and doesn's support the qr// operator. My knowledge of installing Perl modules is basically nonexistent; in this case, I just copied the source code from the CPAN web site into the proper files under perl/lib. That's probably not the right way to do it. It's not. If you're using ActiveState's Perl, use the PPM program. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: Check ISBN sub
Please also investigate the Business::ISBN module. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: diff and sed
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:54:20AM -0600, John E Guillory ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This isn't a perl question explicitly (but I am a librarian!). And it's sort of Perl-related because Larry Wall wrote patch years and years ago, before Perl was invented. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: mailing lists vs. Google Groups (Usenet)
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:11:22AM -0600, Doran, Michael D ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Although serving a similar purpose, I make a distinction between listservs and news groups. The main distinction being that I assume the audience for the listserv is the people who explicitly subscribe to the listserv, whereas the audience for Google Groups are basically the whole world. This distinction affects my posting behavior. I would suggest that the distinction you draw between the two is imaginary. I expect that anything that I send to anything that is not a single person may potentially get mirrored somewhere that Google (or any search engine) will find. The fact that perl4lib postings also go to Google Groups should at least be mentioned in the WELCOME to perl4lib@perl.org automated It sure couldn't hurt. Also, LISTSERV is a trademark. The generic term is mailing list. http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/legal.asp -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: delete_subfields()
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:34:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: MARC::Field-as_string() takes a string of subfields rather than an array. It would be better for as_string() and delete_subfields() to have the same interface. Since as_string() is used a lot in production, delete_subfields() should be the one to change. Or they could be smart enough to Do The Right Thing. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Fwd: [CPAN Upload: P/PE/PETDANCE/MARC-Record-1.39_01.tar.gz: upload@pause.perl.org]
Here's a new update to MARC::Record. [ENHANCEMENTS] - Support for UTF8 in Perls = 5.8.1. When using a utf8 friendly Perl all file streams will be opened in utf8 mode, and the bytes pragma will be used to create and use direcotry byte offsets.. - Added MARC::File::Utils which contains utf8 safe functions. - marcdump now sets STDOUT to utf8 if it is able to. - t/utf8.t is no longer skipped. - removed redundant record length check in MARC::File::USMARC::_next() and adjusted tests in t/75.warnings.t - All tests run under -T except t/utf8.t. The uploaded file MARC-Record-1.39_01.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/MARC-Record-1.39_01.tar.gz size: 116742 bytes md5: 8ff56d19f9d4beaf028f1e31e9dfc28a No action is required on your part Request entered by: PETDANCE (Andy Lester) Request entered on: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:02:34 GMT Request completed: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:04:39 GMT Thanks, -- paused, v460 - End forwarded message - -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: MARC.pm questions
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:14:23PM -0400, Eli Naeher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Probably dumb questions. However, the archives don't appear to be searchable so here goes: a. What's the difference between MARC.pm and MARC::Record co.? Is MARC.pm deprecated/obsolete/no longer developed? Yes, use MARC::Record going forward. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: STDIN as well as command line input
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:14:51AM -0500, Eric Lease Morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What should I do to my first program (foo.pl) so it can accept command line input as well as input from STDIN? How are you reading from the files? Opening them yourself one at a time? Don't. Use the magic filehandle. See my talk A Field Guide To The Perl Command Line on http://petdance.com/perl/. It was also an article in The Perl Journal a few months back. I'll be presenting the talk at YAPC this year. http://www.yapc.org/America/ xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: automagically create browsable POD pages
What's the ultimate goal? Do you want these pages served up by Apache? If so, look at my Apache::Pod::HTML which I created just for this very purpose. We have all our docs (coding stanards and so on) done in POD, but browsable via Apache using it. (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Pod/) Might look at DocSet on CPAN. perl.apache.org is generated with it from pod files. All the perl.org sites (like qa.perl.org which I currently maintain) are done with Template Toolkit, and much of qa.perl.org is Pod that changes automagically behind the scenes. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: Using as_string() in Marc::batch
I'm using as_string() in Marc::Batch to get 650 fields and mash all the subfields together so I can push them into a database. Works great, but what I'd really like to do is have fields such as: Health Services Canada. appear as Health Services -- Canada. Well, it's MARC::Field that is doing the as_string(). The dashes between the a, x, y and z is bringing me back to 1991 when I was working on the punctuation for the CardMaster Plus product for Follett Software. What I had to do back then was create a big table that summarized the AACR2 rules as best as possible. It was big mess, with certain punctuation coming before certain fields, and some after. For example, in your Health Services -- Canada, the -- isn't after the _a subfield, but rather that it's before the _x. All that was in C, before object-oriented programming (at least in our shop), so these days we'd probably have a MARC::Field::650 subclass that overrides the as_string() method. That could get pretty hairy for all the potential tags running around, especially since 600 and 650 and a good many other 6xx tags would be similar. I'm open to ideas. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: MARC-editing Perl/Tk widget
By the way... I've tentatively called the widgets: Tk-MARC-record Tk-MARC-field Tk-MARC-subfield Tk-MARC-indicators Tk-MARC-leader I'd use initial caps, assuming that they create MARC::Record, MARC::Field etc objects. Otherwise, people using will have to remember that it's Tk::MARC::record and MARC::Record, which will be confusing. xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
MARC::Record v1.34
The uploaded file MARC-Record-1.34.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/P/PE/PETDANCE/MARC-Record-1.34.tar.gz The big change in this release is the ability to read from a pipe, or an output stream. In our case (at Follett Library Resources), we have thousands of MARC files that we've gzipped to save space (they save about 85-90% gzipped), but we still need to be able to use the data on the fly in our new TitleWise service. Rather than decompressing and then opening the file, Ed Summers worked it out so that MARC::File::* can read from a pipe. We were considering letting the marcdump and marclint programs read from standard input, but you can do that with - as a filename anyway. 1.34December 16th, 2003 [ENHANCEMENTS] - modified MARC::File::in() to allow passing in filehandles instead of a filename. Useful in situations where you might have data compressed on disk, and want to read from a decompression pipe. This effects MARC::Batch of course as well, which has had its documentation updated. - added t/85.fh.t to test new filehandle passing - Incorrect filetypes passed in to the MARC::Batch constructor now croak instead of die, so you can see where in your code it was called. [FIXES] - etc/specs modified to correctly parse LCs docs to get the 250 $b properly. Thanks Bryan Baldus at Quality Books. - new Lint.pm with 250 $b. - MARC::Field now leaves alphabetic indicators as they are instead of squashing to a space. Thanks Leif Andersson from Stockholms Universitet. - MARC::File::USMARC no longer checks the validity of indicators but leaves that up to MARC::Field (instead of having the check twice). - In MARC::Batch, the 'warn' elements weren't quoted. - warnings_on and strict_on should now be respected. Have fun! xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: MARC::Record in CVS and testing
Are you familiar with Test::More? It has some cool features that can be tricky (conditionally skipping tests, TODO tests, etc.), so holler if you have questions. I haven't examined MARC::Record's test suite closely, but what I've seen looks very well done, so you should be able to learn from it. Thanks. I've got some slides from presentations I've done on testing, too. http://www.petdance.com/perl/automated-testing/ http://www.petdance.com/perl/large-project-testing.pdf xoa -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
