I hadn't thought of the validator.
My solution when processing thousands of records (say, when we purchase a large
collection) is to run the attached as a task. The 910 is arbitrary. A bit of a brute
force solution, admittedly, but it works fast.
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On 5/29/2020 3:06 PM, Terry Reese wrote:
> It's a good idea, but I'm not sure how practical it is. When lines wrap, the move to
> new lines so they are no longer easy to count unless you are constantly parsing the
> file (which is problematic for performance). This seems more like the kind of thing
> that could be flagged in the validator -- so you could run the Validator from Reports
> and validate the structure, and then receive indicators related to fields that may be
> too long.
>
> --tr
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> Greetings,
>
> Many editors show what column the cursor is in. I have noticed that certain MARC
> fields are common sites for abuse by catalogers who are willing to add more
> characters than the specified limit. (The 505 and 520 fields come to mind.) They seem
> to use these fields for promotional essays and perhaps to improve keyword searching
> for their own titles. I have seen indexing procedures choke on overly-long text
> fields and pause to repair the problem by chopping up the offending fields. It would
> be helpful to be able to make a quick check, while still in MarcEditor, for the
> character-count of longer fields to determine whether to delete the field outright or
> chop it up into manageable pieces. Is it possible to add a current-column number in
> the status bar?
>
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