Ruby-marc sages,
What's the best way to re-sequence fields in a record after appending to it?  This seems to work ok, but feels wrong.


  for record in reader
    # Return a record with new field appended.
    newrecord = add_control_number(record)
    
    ### Re-sort fields by tag and copy them to a new record. ###
    sortedrecord = MARC::Record.new
    sortedrecord.leader = newrecord.leader
    newrecord.sort_by{|f| f.tag}.each {|tag| sortedrecord.append(tag)}
          
     writer.write(sortedrecord)
  end


Thanks,
Jason

Jason Stirnaman
Lead, Library Technology Services
University of Kansas Medical Center
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