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

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

       This software is copyright (c) 2013--2023 by Gerhard Gossen and Boris Veytsman and Karl Berry.

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

perl v5.40.0                                       2024-09-08                        BibTeX::Parser::Author(3pm)

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.

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

       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 of 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}"

       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);

       version 1.04