On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:32:51AM +0100, Ron Davies wrote:
> I think the documentation would be clearer if it said that after the
> discussion most people wanted the ability to add a new field to the end of
> the hundred group where it belonged. The reason is that according to the
> MARC format
Ron et. al.-
On the issue of alpha and numeric tags, I know that alpha values in tags
have been permitted in the MARC standard for a long time, and applaud the
fact that MARC::Record allows for it, but has anyone actually seen one
used? In some later revision of UNIMARC or one of the national s
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:32:51AM +0100, Ron Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The reason is that according to the
> MARC format, fields within a record are supposed to be grouped by block
> (hundred groups). That means that fields may not necessarily be in tag order.
>
> It's true a 001 w
At 19:29 5/11/2003, Leif Andersson wrote:
The documentation says that after a discussion (which I have not been able
to find any trace of) on this list it seemed most people wanted to add a
new field to the end of the hundred group it belongs to!
This sounds very peculiar to me.
If I want to add
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:29:56PM +0100, Leif Andersson wrote:
> Am I missing something?
> I can not find this in MARC::Record
No, you are correct. It was vaporware until a few moments ago :)
If you get v1.32 from SourceForge [1] you'll find the new method
insert_fields_ordered(). Like you said i
Am I missing something?
I can not find this in MARC::Record
Leif
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Ämne: Re: MARC::Record insert function
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:29:59PM +0100, Leif
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:29:59PM +0100, Leif Andersson wrote:
> Even if it, as it stands, only is intended for MARC21 records, I still think
> it would be nice to have an insert method like the one above.
How about:
$rec->insert_fields_ordered( @fields );
//Ed
MARC::Record has three functions (or methods) for inserting a field.
insert_grouped_field(field)
insert_fields_before($before_field,@new_fields)
insert_fields_after($after_field,@new_fields)
There is some inconsistency in the implementation of field handling, and also some
inconvenience in us
