Re: Question about MARC::RECORD usage

Bryan,

Many thanks for the quick response.

> There are times when the proper order would be $a, $n, $p, $b, $c, as 
> well,
> aren't there?
Thanks for the forwarning - I haven't been told that yet - I'm not involved 
in the production of the data just in extracting it for publishing! This is 
proving to be something of a baptism by fire.

> According to the POD in MARC::Field:
> "Or if you think there might be more than one you can get all of them by
> calling in a list context:
>
>    my @subfields = $field->subfield( 'a' );"
>
> Alternatively, get all subfields in the field and parse as needed:
>
> my $field245 = $record->field('245');
> my @subfields = $field245->subfields();
>
> while (my $subfield = pop(@subfields)) {
>    my ($code, $data) = @$subfield;
>    #do something with data
>
>    #or add code and data to array
>    unshift (@newsubfields, $code, $data);
> } # while
This look like something I can sit down this evening and work on to trya nd 
understand.

Many thanks again - any other suggestions welcome.