[Koha] Hello from Vermont

[Joy Nelson]

Have at it!  I do most of my manipulations with perl scripts, so I
understand what you are talking about.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Mark Alexander <marka at pobox.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Joy Nelson's message of 2016-08-29 09:25:05 -0500:
> > If you don't have MarcEdit, I would suggest getting a copy.
>
> I did look at that briefly.  It looks like a decent tool, but I was a
> bit put off by the Mono requirement.  Plus I wasn't sure it was
> capable of doing the regexp matching / mass modification / consistency
> checking stuff I'm doing in my own Ruby scripts.
>
> As an example, I've written some code to figure out the Koha item type
> from various fields in our MARC records.  I'm learning that our
> records are not consistent by any means.  Sometimes a DVD is marked as
> such in 245$h (with wildly varying strings), sometimes in 347$b
> (again, with lots of variants), and sometimes in 852$h.  It was pretty
> simple to write some code to check for these various fields and do the
> right thing.
>
> I realize that this approach might look crazy, but I'm a Unix guy
> from way back in the 80s, and old habits die hard :-) .
>



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