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POD Translationby pod2pdfajf@afco.demon.co.ukTutorial.podTitle Page Tutorial.pod22 August 2005 Fly leafTable of ContentsTutorial.podNAME 1SYNOPSIS 1INTRODUCTION 1What is MARC? 1What is this Tutorial? 1History of MARC on CPAN 1Brief Overview of MARC Classes 1MARC::Batch 1MARC::Field 2MARC::Record 2MARC::Doc::Tutorial 2MARC::File 2MARC::File::MicroLIF 2MARC::File::USMARC 2Help Wanted! 2READING 2Reading a record from a file 2Iterating through a batch file 2Checking for errors 3Recovering from errors 3Looking at a field 4Looking at repeatable fields 4Looking at a set of related fields 5Looking at all the fields in a record 5CREATING 6Creating a record 6WRITING 6Writing records to a file 6Debugging with as_formatted() 7Debugging with marcdump() 8UPDATING 8Adding a field 8Preserving field order 9Deleting a field 9Changing existing fields 10Updating subfields and indicators 10Changing a record‘s leader 11Modifying fields without indicators 11Reordering subfields 12Updating subject subfield x to subfield v 13VALIDATING 14Using MARC::Lint 14Customizing MARC::Lint 15SWOLLEN APPENDICES 16Comparing Collections 16Authority Records 16URLs 16ISBN/ISSNs 16Call numbers 16Subject headings 16HTML 17XML 1722 August 2005 iTutorial.pod Table of ContentsExcel 17Z39.50 17Databases 18Procite/Endnote 20CONTRIBUTORS 20ii 22 August 2005pod2pdf Tutorial.podNAME MARC::Doc::Tutorial A documentation only module for new users of ...