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On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:08:17PM -0400, Hickey,Thom wrote: > Maybe others are doing this (or is everyone using XML?), but it's new to us > here. Maybe this would even work with MARC-XML if you restricted linefeeds > to the end of record. This is how MARC is read by MARC::File::USMARC in the MARC::Record CPAN module :) > On my workstation, grep can plow through 50 million Unicode MARC-21 records > in less than 15 minutes. The best time our C software can do is more than > half an hour and our Python code could take several hours. Cool! I've been working off and on on a Python port for MARC::Record, and wasnt' able to find an equivalent to $/ in Python. But I'm a Python newbie, so perhaps I overlooked something? //Ed