Catman...::MAB2(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

Catmandu::Exporter::MAB2 — bestie, it's the package that exports MAB2 data. That's it, that's the whole job description 💅

(oh and fun fact, this page lives in the perl section, manual name Catman...::MAB2(3pm) — iykyk 🎀)

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

okay so here's the vibe in code:

use Catmandu::Exporter::MAB2;

my $exporter = Catmandu::Exporter::MAB2->new(file => "mab2.dat", type => "RAW");
my $data = {
 record => [
    ...
    [245, '1', 'a', 'Cross-platform Perl /', 'c', 'Eric F. Johnson.'],
    ...
    ],
};

$exporter->add($data);
$exporter->commit;

literally that's the whole flow. new → add → commit. slay ✨

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🦋 Arguments 🦋

these are the little guys you can pass in:

• file — the path to the file with your MAB2 records. 📁
• fh — an already-open filehandle for the file with MAB2 records. 🫶
• type — tells it what flavor of MAB2 records you're dealing with: Disk (Diskette), RAW (Band), or XML. Default: 001. Optional. 🌸
• xml_declaration — writes the XML declaration. Set it to 0 or 1. Default: 0. Optional. ✨
• collection — wraps your records in a collection element (<datei>). Set it to 0 or 1. Default: 0. Optional. 🎀

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👑 METHODS 👑

💜 new(file => $file | fh => $filehandle [, type => XML, xml-declaration => 1, collection => 1])

Creates a brand new Catmandu MAB2 export that serializes into a $file. main character energy fr fr 🌟

💜 add($data)

Drops a record into the exporter. one at a time, no rush bestie 💖

💜 commit()

Closes the collection (if you even have one, it's optional) and the filehandle. this is your goodbye kiss 😭

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🧚 CONFIGURATION 🧚

on top of all the config that Catmandu::Exporter already gives you (file, fh, etc. — the classics), the importer can also be configured with these parameters:

• type — the MAB2 syntax variant. go peek at Catmandu::Importer::MAB2 for the deets. 🔍
• xml_declaration — writes the XML declaration. Set to 0 or 1. Default: 0. Optional. ✨
• collection — wraps records in the collection element (<datei>). Set to 0 or 1. Default: 0. Optional. 🎀

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Johann Rolschewski <jorol@cpan.org> — the icon, the legend, the moment 👑

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🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Johann Rolschewski.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. free as in freedom, bestie 🕊️

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and that's a wrap!! this page is from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-12-04, filed under Catman...::MAB2(3pm) — go forth and export ur MAB2 records, periodt 💅💖✨