Re: Deleting a subfield using MARC::Record

On 5/1/06, Edward Summers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On May 1, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Brad Baxter wrote:
> >> # delete first two subfield u
> >> $field->delete_subfield(code => 'u', count => 2);
> >
> > I don't think I like it this way.  How would you delete just the
> > second one?
> > I'd rather see 'count' mean 'occurrence', so the above would mean
> > delete the second subfield u.
>
> Yeah, I like your suggestion of using 'occurrence' over 'count' here.
>
> > And ...
> >
> > # delete second and third subfield u
> > $field->delete_subfield(code => 'u', count => 2, count => 3);
>
> This won't translate very well to passing in arguments as a hash,
> since the second count will stomp on the first. Have you actually had
> to any real need to delete this way in the past?

Of course.  I was thinking too shallowly.  The suggestions for
occur => [1,2] would do the trick.

-- Brad