CDA Oral Arguments: Filtering the OPAC

[Elizabeth Hamilton]

Dear Thomas,

How's this...


#! /usr/bin/perl -w

# Open old catalog, search marc record for specified naughty words
# substitute with space and save to new catalog! ;-)

$newcatalog = "newcatalog";
$oldcatalog = "oldcatalog";

open (OLDCATALOG, ">newcatalog") || 
   die "Oops we gave it away years ago.\n" {
    while (<OLDCATALOG>) {
      print if /marc2txt/i;
      }
}
close OLDCATALOG;

open (NEWCATALOG ">$newcatalog") 
  || die "Can't open file. It's hostage to the Decency League.\n";
  while (<NEWCATALOG>) {
     s/dirty_word_1//g;
     s/dirty_word_2//g;    
     print; 
    }
}
close NEWCATALOG; 

Keep in mind I'm a Perl novice!

Elizabeth 

-- 
Elizabeth Hamilton
University of Cincinnati Libraries

>Thomas wrote:
>marc2txt oldcatalog | grep -iv "dirty_word_1" | \
>    grep -iv "dirty_word_2" | txt2marc > newcatalog
>
>Sure.  That'll work.  :-)
>
>Thomas ("You could also do it in Perl") Dowling