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88 org.marc4j.marc</FONT>
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90 Interface VariableField</H2>
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92 <DT><B>All Superinterfaces:</B> <DD><A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Comparable.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">Comparable</A>, <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html" title="class or interface in java.io">Serializable</A></DD>
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95 <DT><B>All Known Subinterfaces:</B> <DD><A HREF="../../../org/marc4j/marc/ControlField.html" title="interface in org.marc4j.marc">ControlField</A>, <A HREF="../../../org/marc4j/marc/DataField.html" title="interface in org.marc4j.marc">DataField</A></DD>
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102 <DT><PRE>public interface <B>VariableField</B><DT>extends <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/Serializable.html" title="class or interface in java.io">Serializable</A>, <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Comparable.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">Comparable</A></DL>
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106 Represents a variable field in a MARC record.
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114 <DD>Bas Peters</DD>
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130 <CODE> boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
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131 <TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../org/marc4j/marc/VariableField.html#find(java.lang.String)">find</A></B>(<A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A> pattern)</CODE>
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134 Returns true if the given regular expression matches a subsequence of a
135 data element within the variable field.</TD>
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139 <CODE> <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Long.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">Long</A></CODE></FONT></TD>
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140 <TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../org/marc4j/marc/VariableField.html#getId()">getId</A></B>()</CODE>
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197 <DD>Sets the identifier.
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267 <DD>Returns true if the given regular expression matches a subsequence of a
268 data element within the variable field.
271 See <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html" title="class or interface in java.util.regex"><CODE>Pattern</CODE></A> for more information about Java
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