Re: MARC-perl: different versions yield different results

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Al <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is my record batches are a mixture of UTF8 and MARC8 and explicitly
> setting binmode screws things up. I need a solution that transparently
> handles a mix of record encodings.

Hmm, yeah the idea w/ MARC::Record v2.x was that binmode would be
used. It looks like you can add 'use bytes' to your program and things
will
work as well.

  use bytes;
  use MARC::Batch;
  my $batch = new MARC::Batch('USMARC', $ARGV[0]);
  $batch->strict_off ();
  $batch->warnings_off ();
  my $record = $batch->next;
  print $record->as_usmarc;

Does that "screw things up" for you in a similar way that binmode on
the filehandle does? What does "screw things up" actually mean?

//Ed