Thanks!

Do you know if anyone has worked on porting this to a PHP scenario, or
is that my job?

joy
Ken

Doran, Michael D wrote:

>>I've not tried it, but there is sortLC
>>http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/sortlc/
>>
>>
>
>Using your sample as input, sortLC outputs this result:
>
>LB1027 .P383 1999
>LB1027.23 .B45 1997
>LB1027.23 .S556 1996
>LB1027.25 E45 2001
>LB1027.3 .E44 2001
>LB1027.3 .E45 1997
>LB1027.3 .S33 1999
>LB1027.44 .M67 1994
>LB1027.9 .L43 2004
>LB1027.9 .S26 2000
>LB1028 .A7 1990
>LB1028.24 .B75 1999
>LB1028.24 .P65 1999
>
>
>
>>It is in beta.
>>
>>
>
>I think any LC sort routine will break done eventually, especially given
>the creativity and/or local practice occasionally used in the
>creation/assignment of LC call numbers.  But sortLC should take you
>further along the path than your current sort routine.  Note that the
>routine should kick out (to STDERR) any call numbers that it can't
>parse.  Also be aware that it will dedupe identical call numbers.
>
>There was also a minor change made to the call number regexp to more
>accurately handle certain "bad" call numbers, so please let me know if
>there are any unintended (bad) consequences.  The changed version is
>1.2b.
>
>-- Michael
>
># Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
># University of Texas at Arlington
># 817-272-5326 office
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># http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>Behalf Of Bigwood, David
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:14 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LC sort problems (php)
>>
>>Ken,
>>
>>I've not tried it, but there is sortLC
>>http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/sortlc/ It is in beta.
>>
>>David Bigwood
>>[log in to unmask]
>>Lunar & Planetary Institute
>>http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>Behalf Of
>>Ken Irwin
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:55 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: [CODE4LIB] LC sort problems (php)
>>
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>I've been using a Library-of-Congress sort routine for a few
>>years, and
>>until now I have never used it on sufficiently large set of data to
>>notice that it doesn't really work. It does a great job of
>>sorting by LC
>>class letters, but after that it gets a bit sketchy. Can
>>someone help me
>>here?
>>
>>The sort uses the php "usort" command, with the sort routine
>>defined in
>>the SortCall function (at the bottom of the page)
>>Here's the sort in action:
>>http://www6.wittenberg.edu/lib/sort.php
>>And here's the code:
>>http://www6.wittenberg.edu/lib/sort.txt
>>
>>I'm finding that LC call numbers with decimals in the first
>>number seem
>>to be especially confusing, as in this supposedly sorted list:
>>
>>LB1027 .P383 1999
>>LB1027.9 .L43 2004
>>LB1028.24 .B75 1999
>>LB1027.3 .S33 1999
>>LB1027.9 .S26 2000
>>LB1028.24 .P65 1999
>>LB1027.3 .E44 2001
>>LB1028 .A7 1990
>>LB1027.25 E45 2001
>>LB1027.3 .E45 1997
>>LB1027.23 .B45 1997
>>LB1027.23 .S556 1996
>>LB1027.44 .M67 1994
>>
>>Can anyone see why this isn't working? Alternately, does
>>anyone have an
>>LC sort routine that they are really happy with? This one doesn't even
>>pretend to do a good job sorting on anything with more than one set of
>>cutters, but now I find it's even lamer than I thought.
>>
>>Help!
>>
>>Thanks
>>Ken
>>
>>--
>>Ken Irwin
>>Reference Librarian
>>Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
>>
>>
>>

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Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University