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| − | + | These are some recipes for useful things you might want to do with ruby-marc. If you need a file of MARC records to work with, you can download one from here: [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3A%22data%22%20MARC http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3A%22data%22%20MARC]. | |
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| + | ==== Recipe: read in a large file of marc records, pull out one of them and write it to a separate file ==== | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | require 'rubygems' | ||
| + | require 'marc' | ||
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| + | reader = MARC::Reader.new('/usr/local/projects/bl-demo/data/lc_records.utf8.mrc') | ||
| + | record = reader.first | ||
| + | writer = MARC::Writer.new('/tmp/file2') | ||
| + | writer.write(record) | ||
| + | writer.close | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
Latest revision as of 03:05, 21 March 2009
Rdocs are here: http://marc.rubyforge.org
These are some recipes for useful things you might want to do with ruby-marc. If you need a file of MARC records to work with, you can download one from here: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3A%22data%22%20MARC.
Recipe: read in a large file of marc records, pull out one of them and write it to a separate file
require 'rubygems'
require 'marc'
reader = MARC::Reader.new('/usr/local/projects/bl-demo/data/lc_records.utf8.mrc')
record = reader.first
writer = MARC::Writer.new('/tmp/file2')
writer.write(record)
writer.close
