From c11696a5cb129c79a3d9abe2534b5e061c6d942e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shawn Boyette <sboyette@esilibrary.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:34:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] pre-exception MARC validation abstracted

---
 fingerprinter |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fingerprinter b/fingerprinter
index 919744c..7bad37e 100755
--- a/fingerprinter
+++ b/fingerprinter
@@ -40,11 +40,8 @@ for my $file (@ARGV) {
 
         my $marc = populate_marc($record, $id);
         $marc    = normalize_marc($marc);
-        unless ($marc->{item_form} and ($marc->{date1} =~ /\d{4}/) and
-                $marc->{record_type} and $marc->{bib_lvl} and $marc->{title}) {
-            dump_exception($marc);
-            next;
-        }
+        unless (marc_isvalid($marc))
+          { dump_exception($marc); next; }
         dump_fingerprints($marc);
     }
 }
@@ -158,6 +155,21 @@ sub normalize_marc {
 
 
 
+=head2 marc_isvalid
+
+Checks MARC record to see if neccessary fingerprinting data is
+available
+
+=cut
+
+sub marc_isvalid {
+    my ($marc) = @_;
+    return 1 if ($marc->{item_form} and ($marc->{date1} =~ /\d{4}/) and
+                 $marc->{record_type} and $marc->{bib_lvl} and $marc->{title});
+    return 0;
+}
+
+
 =head2 dump_fingerprints
 
 =cut
-- 
1.7.2.5