NAME

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

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);

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.

NOTES

       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}"

VERSION

       version 1.02

AUTHOR

       Gerhard Gossen <gerhard.gossen@googlemail.com> and Boris Veytsman <boris@varphi.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013--2016 by Gerhard Gossen and Boris Veytsman.

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