NAME

PICA::Parser::Plus - Normalized PICA+ format parser

SYNOPSIS

    use PICA::Parser::Plus;

    my $parser = PICA::Parser::Plus->new( $filename );

    while ( my $record_hash = $parser->next ) {
        # do something        
    }

METHODS

new( $input )

Initialize parser to read from a given file, handle (e.g. IO::Handle), or string reference.

next

Reads the next PICA+ record. Returns a hash with keys _id and record.

next_record

Reads the next PICA+ record. Returns an array of field arrays.

SEEALSO

The counterpart of this module is PICA::Writer::Plus.

See Catmandu::Importer::PICA for usage of this module in Catmandu.

An alternative writer had been implemented as PICA::PlainParser included in the release of PICA::Record.