The "Text::BibTeX" module serves mainly as a high-level introduction to the "Text::BibTeX" library, for both code and documentation purposes. The code loads the two fundamental modules for processing BibTeX files ("Text::BibTeX::File" and "Text::BibT...

The "Text::BibTeX::Value" module provides two classes, "Text::BibTeX::Value" and "Text::BibTeX::SimpleValue", which respectively give you access to BibTeX "compound values" and "simple values". Recall that every field value in a BibTeX entry is the c...

"Text::BibTeX::Name" provides an abstraction for BibTeX-style names and some basic operations on them. A name, in the BibTeX world, consists of a list of *tokens* which are divided amongst four *parts*: `first', `von', `last', and `jr'. Tokens are se...

"Text::BibTeX::File" provides an object-oriented interface to BibTeX files. Its most obvious purpose is to keep track of a filename and filehandle together for use by the "Text::BibTeX::Entry" module (which is much more interesting). In addition, it ...

"Text::BibTeX::Entry" does all the real work of reading and parsing BibTeX files. (Well, actually it just provides an object-oriented Perl front-end to a C library that does all that. But that's not important right now.) BibTeX entries can be read ei...

(NOTE! Do not believe everything you read in this document. The classes described here are unfinished and only lightly tested. The current implementation is a proof-of-principle, to convince myself (and anyone who might be interested) that it really ...

The module "Text::BibTeX::Structure" provides two classes that form the basis of the btOOL "structure module" system. This system is how database structures are defined and imposed on BibTeX files, and provides an elegant synthesis of object-oriented...

"Text::BibTeX::BibSort" is a base class of "Text::BibTeX::BibEntry" for generating sort keys from bibliography entries. It could in principle (and, someday, might) offer a wide range of highly customizable sort-key generators. Currently, though, it p...

"Text::BibTeX::BibStyle" is a module that can format "Text::BibTeX::Entry" objects by interpreting a bibstyle (".bst") file such as "ieeetr.bst". In this way, Perl can use the same bibliographic style files that bibtex does. For a large collection of...

The "Text::BibTeX::BibFormat" class is a base class of "Text::BibTeX::BibEntry" for formatting bibliography entries. It thus performs the main job of any program that would hope to supplant BibTeX itself; the other important job (sorting) is handled ...

After splitting a name into its components parts (represented as a "Text::BibTeX::Name" object), you often want to put it back together again as a single string formatted in a consistent way. "Text::BibTeX::NameFormat" provides a very flexible way to...