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
Hi Jane,
These answers assume that the data you are processing:
1) is encoded in the MARC-8 character set, and
2) consists of the MARC-8 default basic and extended Latin characters.
Dave,Ayod\2003
Paòt,Kaâs\2002
Baks,Dasa\2003
,Viâs\2002
Problem 1: As you can see, I don't really want the
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
