BibTeX.jl
BibTeX.parse_bibtex
— Methodparse_bibtex(text)
This is a simple input parser for BibTex. I had trouble finding a standard specification, but I've included several features of real BibTex. Returns a preamble (or an empty string) and a dict of dicts.
julia> using BibTeX
julia> preamble, result = parse_bibtex("""
@preamble{some instructions}
@comment blah blah
@string{short = long}
@a{b,
c = { {c} c},
d = "d d",
e = f # short
}
""");
julia> preamble
"some instructions"
julia> result["b"]["type"]
"a"
julia> result["b"]["c"]
"{ c } c"
julia> result["b"]["d"]
"d d"
julia> result["b"]["e"]
"f short"
julia> parse_bibtex("@book")
ERROR: Expected { on line 1
[...]
julia> parse_bibtex("@book@")
ERROR: Expected { on line 1
[...]