NAME

BibTeX::Parser - A pure perl BibTeX parser

SYNOPSIS

Parses BibTeX files.

            

              
              
   use BibTeX::Parser;
use IO::File;
   my $fh = IO::File->new("filename");
   # Create parser object ...
   my $parser = BibTeX::Parser->new($fh);
     
   # ... and iterate over entries
   while (my $entry = $parser->next ) {
    if ($entry->parse_ok) {
            my $type    = $entry->type;
            my $title   = $entry->field("title");
            my @authors = $entry->author;
            # or:
            my @editors = $entry->editor;
                     
            foreach my $author (@authors) {
                    print $author->first . " "
                        . $author->von . " "
                        . $author->last . ", "
                        . $author->jr;
            }
    } else {
            warn "Error parsing file: " . $entry->error;
    }
   }
            
          

FUNCTIONS

new

Creates new parser object.

Parameters:

            

              
              
* fh: A filehandle
            
          

next

Returns the next parsed entry or undef.

NOTES

The fields author and editor are canonicalized, see BibTeX::Parser::Author.

SEE ALSO

• BibTeX::Parser::Entry

• BibTeX::Parser::Author

VERSION

version 1.04

AUTHOR

Gerhard Gossen <gerhard.gossen@googlemail.com> and Boris Veytsman <boris@varphi.com> and Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013-2024 by Gerhard Gossen and Boris Veytsman and Karl Berry.

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