[Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On May 4, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Julian Maurice wrote:
> In order to close this discussion, I created a ticket on rt.cpan.org (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=76990) and attached a patch to force record length to not be greater than 99999 in the leader.

This would have the effect of having MARC::Record output invalid records that we *know* are invalid.  There's no way around it -- an ISO2709 blob can be no longer than 99999 octets, and a strict parser (a couple of which do exist in the wild) would drop records where the Leader/05 does not match the length of the record as determined by the location of the record terminator character.

I'm much more inclined to accept a patch to MARC::Record that introduces a more forgiving input parsing mode.

Regards,

Galen
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