NAME

BibTeX::Author - Contains a single author for a BibTeX document.

SYNOPSIS

This class is a wrapper for a single BibTeX author. It is usually created by a BibTeX::Parser.

    use BibTeX::Parser::Author;
    my $entry = BibTeX::Parser::Author->new($full_name);
    
    my $firstname = $author->first;
    my $von       = $author->von;
    my $last      = $author->last;
    my $jr        = $author->jr;
    # or ...
    
    my ($first, $von, $last, $jr) = BibTeX::Author->split($fullname);

FUNCTIONS

new

Create new author object. Expects full name as parameter.

split

Split name into (firstname, von part, last name, jr part). Returns array with four strings, some of them possibly empty.

to_string

Return string representation of the name, as described next.

NOTES

BibTeX allows three representations of a person's name:

1.: First von Last
2.: von Last, First
3.: von Last, Jr, First

The module always converts the first form to the second or third one to allow simple string comparisons.

The algorithm to determine the von part is the following: von part consists of tokens where the first letter at brace level 0 is in lower case. Anything in a "special characters" is on brace level 0. Thus the following tokens are considered von parts: "von", "\NOOP{von}Von", and the following token is not: "{von}"

VERSION

version 1.93

AUTHOR

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

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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