MARC blob to MARC::Record object

I am working on a Perl script that retrieves data from our Voyager ILS via an SQL query.  Among other data, I have MARC records in blob form, and the script processes one MARC record at a time.  I want to be able to parse and modify/convert the MARC record (using MARC::Record) before writing/printing data to a file.

How do I make the MARC blob into a MARC::Record object (without having to first save it a file and read it in with MARC::File/Batch)?  The MARC blob is already in a variable, so it doesn't make sense (to me) to write it out to a file just so I can read it back in.  Unless I have to, natch.

I apologize if I am missing something obvious.

-- Michael

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