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.IX Title "BibTeX::Parser 3pm"
.TH BibTeX::Parser 3pm "2021-12-11" "perl v5.32.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
BibTeX::Parser \- A pure perl BibTeX parser
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
Parses BibTeX files.
.PP
.Vb 2
\&    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;
\&            }
\&    }
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.SH "FUNCTIONS"
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.SS "new"
.IX Subsection "new"
Creates new parser object.
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Parameters:
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\&        * fh: A filehandle
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.SS "next"
.IX Subsection "next"
Returns the next parsed entry or undef.
.SH "NOTES"
.IX Header "NOTES"
The fields \f(CW\*(C`author\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`editor\*(C'\fR are canonized, see
BibTeX::Parser::Author
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
.IP "\(bu" 4
BibTeX::Parser::Entry
.IP "\(bu" 4
BibTeX::Parser::Author
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 1.02
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Gerhard Gossen <gerhard.gossen@googlemail.com> and
Boris Veytsman <boris@varphi.com>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2013\-2016 by Gerhard Gossen and Boris Veytsman
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.