Also, be advised that current work on marc4j is happening over at Github, so for the most recent code:
https://github.com/marc4j/marc4j
-Tod
On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Jonah Bull <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> There's a pretty good example included in the "samples" section of the
> source (
> http://marc4j.tigris.org/source/browse/marc4j/src/org/marc4j/samples/ReadMarcExample.java?revision=1.1&view=markup
> ).
>
> Your particular use might look something like this (not tested):
>
> public class MARCParser() {
>
> public List<String> getData(File file) {
> MarcReader reader = new MarcStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file));
> List<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();
> while (reader.hasNext()) {
> Record record = reader.next();
> VariableField field = record.getVariableField("856");
> data.add(field.toString());
> }
> return data;
> }
>
> }
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jonah
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a simple example of reading a MARC file using the Java
>> marc4j library? The documentation is rather lackluster (
>> http://marc4j.tigris.org/doc/) and I am unable to find anything helpful
>> Googling or searching discussion lists. I am wanting to do something like
>> this:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> public class MARCParser(){
>>
>>
>>
>> public ArrayList<String> getData(File file){
>>
>>
>>
>> MarcReader reader = new MarcReader(file);
>>
>> ArrayList<String> data = new ArrayList<>;
>>
>> while(reader.next()){
>>
>> data.add(reader.getField(“856”));
>>
>> }
>>
>> return data;
>>
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> I figured this would be a simple enough task and have done something very
>> similar with a PHP MARC library, but I am stumped here.
>>
>>
>>
>> Josh Welker
>>
>> Information Technology Librarian
>>
>> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
>>
>> University of Central Missouri
>>
>> Warrensburg, MO 64093
>>
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>>
>> 660.543.8022
>>
