Oh, gotcha. Thanks.
C
On Jan 27, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> No, that's expected behavior (and how it's always been). You'd need
> to do reader.rewind to put your enumerator cursor back to 0 to run
> back over the records.
>
> It's basically an IO object (since that's what it expects as input)
> and behaves like one.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Cory Rockliff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> So I was taking ruby-marc out for a spin in irb, and encountered a bit of a surprise. Running the following:
>>
>> require 'marc'
>> reader = MARC::Reader.new('filename.mrc')
>> reader.each {|record| puts record['245']}
>>
>> produces the expected result, but every subsequent call to reader.each {|record| puts record['245']} returns nil.
>>
>> Am I missing something obvious? I don't remember this being the case before.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Cory
>>
>> [running ruby-marc off the github repo / os x 10.6.5 / ruby 1.9.2 via rvm / rubygems via homebrew]
>>
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