A utility library for BibTeX written in C#, adapted from BERef/BibTeXLibrary.
It contains changes from AizazZaidee/BibTeXLibrary which allow the parser to handle (read: ignore) comments.
The reader will sometimes choke on special characters, most notably in entry keys. It is neither fast nor memory efficient, but it works and it does not require any external libraries.
The BibParser takes a TextReader and optionally a BibParserConfig.
TextReader reader = ....;
var parser = new BibParser(reader);
foreach (var item in parser.Parse()) {
// Process
}To read a string:
var reader = new StringReader(...input...);To read a file:
var reader = new StreamReader(...filename...);The parser returns a collection of BibEntry. Entries have a Key (their unique index), and a Type (e.g. "article", "book", etc). All other properties are available as KeyValuePair<string, string> through the indexer. Keys are converted to lower case.
var item = new BibEntry();
item.Type = "article";
item.Key = "key";
item["title"] = "Example article";
item["author"] = "Doe, John";Entries can be written using the BibWriter. The writer takes a TextWriter as output, and optionally a BibWriterConfig. item properties with null or empty value are not written to the output.
IEnumerable<BibEntry> items = ...;
TextWriter writer = ....;
var bibWriter = new BibWriter(writer);
bibWriter.Write(items);To write to string:
var builder = new StringBuilder();
var writer = new StringWriter(builder);
// ... Write to writer ...
var result = builder.ToString();To write to file:
var writer = new StreamWriter(file);The MIT License (MIT)
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