RE: marcdump hex switch

I never got an answer to this back in 2008 and thought I might have better luck now...

-- Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doran, Michael D
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:03 AM
> To: perl4lib@perl.org
> Subject: marcdump hex switch
> 
> I have MARC::Record 2.0 installed [1].  According to the Changes file
> marcdump now has a "--hex" switch [2]:
> 
>   [ENHANCEMENTS]
>   - Added --hex switch to marcdump, which dumps the record in
>     hexadecimal.  The offsets are in decimal so that you can match
>     them up to values in the leader.  The offset is reset to 0
>     when we're past the directory so that you can match up the data
>     with the offsets in the directory.
> 
> However.... I'm *not* finding that my marcdump actually has that hex switch:
> 
>   /usr/local/scripts/xml/marc => marcdump --hex test.mrc
>   Unknown option: hex
>   Usage: marcdump [options] file(s)
> 
>   Options:
>     --[no]print     Print a MicroLIF-style dump of each record
>     --lif       Input files are MicroLIF, not USMARC
>     --field=spec    Specify a field spec to include.  There may be many.
>             Examples:
>             --field=245 --field=1XX
>     --[no]quiet     Print status messages
>     --[no]stats     Print a statistical summary by file at the end
>     --version       Print version information
>     --help      Print this summary
> 
> I poked around the marcdump script and didn't find anything "hex":
> 
> my $opt_print = 1;
> my $opt_quiet = 0;
> my $opt_stats = 1;
> my @opt_field = ();
> my $opt_help = 0;
> my $opt_lif = 0;
> 
> Any ideas/explanations?  The hex dump functionality would sure be handy.
> 
> -- Michael
> 
> [1] /usr/local/scripts/xml/marc => marcdump -v
>     /usr/local/bin/marcdump, using MARC::Record v2.0
> 
> [2] CPAN > Revision history for Perl extension MARC::Record
>     http://search.cpan.org/src/MIKERY/MARC-Record-2.0.0/Changes
> 
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• RE: marcdump hex switch by Doran, Michael D