>Has anyone sorted a file of hundreds of records by 001? I haven't done sorting yet, but you may want to see if my MARC::BBMARC's [1], MARC::BBMARC::updated_record_hash() sub may be of use. It reads a file of MARC records and stores them in a hash with the 001 as key, the raw MARC as value. It should be fairly simple, then, to use this to output the desired records in the proper order. It should work ok on small files of MARC records, but depending on your system's memory, may die a horrible death on large record sets.
My extractbycontrolno script [2] reads a file of control numbers (using BBMARC's updated_record_array() to save memory) and a separate file of MARC records, and outputs the matching records. It doesn't do any sorting, so it depends on the order it finds the records. [1] MARC::BBMARC is available directly from my homepage at: <http://home.inwave.com/eija/bryanmodules/>, or bundled with MARC::Errorchecks on CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/~eijabb/MARC-Errorchecks-1.06/> [2] http://home.inwave.com/eija/fullrecscripts/Extraction/extractbycontrolno.txt Hope this helps, Bryan Baldus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.inwave.com/eija
