NAME

BibTeX::Parser::Author

VERSION

version 0.63

SYNOPSIS

This class ist 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);

NAME

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

VERSION

version 0.63

FUNCTIONS

new

Create new author object. Expects full name as parameter.

first

Set or get first name(s).

von

Set or get 'von' part of name.

last

Set or get last name(s).

jr

Set or get 'jr' part of name.

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.

AUTHOR

Gerhard Gossen <gerhard.gossen@googlemail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Gerhard Gossen.

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

cpanm BibTeX::Parser

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install BibTeX::Parser