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 canonized, see BibTeX::Parser::Author

SEE ALSO

• BibTeX::Parser::Entry

• BibTeX::Parser::Author

VERSION

version 1.02

AUTHOR

Gerhard Gossen <gerhard.gossen@googlemail.com> and Boris Veytsman <boris@varphi.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013-2016 by Gerhard Gossen and Boris Veytsman

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