At 15.50 19/08/02 -0700, you wrote:
It looks like we will have to convert this alphanumeric value into an integer in order to use it as the biblionumber in Koha. Can anyone suggest how we might load these records and convert the database control number?
Well, to modify MARC21 record a good tool is the Perl module 'MARC'. Pay attention that it works with MARC21 record only in perfetct standard ISO2709 (so no line-breaks for example). A script to change field 001 into an integer value it can be so: #!/usr/bin/perl use MARC::Batch; my $batch = MARC::Batch->new('USMARC','oder.dat'); open(OUT,'>newer.dat'); $i = 1; while ( my $record = $batch->next() ) { ## look for the 001 field my $field_001 = $record->field('001'); ## delete it $record->delete_field($field_001) if $field_001; ##write new 001 $record->append_fields( MARC::Field->new('001',$i) ); ## print out modified record print OUT $record->as_usmarc(); ##Increment $i of 1 $i++; } Bye Zeno Tajoli - Verona, Italy Librarian and Software Developer