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Biber::Utils - Various utility subs used in Biber

All functions are exported by default.

  Expands a data file glob to a list of filenames

  Use different read encoding/slurp interfaces for Windows due to its
  horrible legacy codepage system

  Use different write encoding/slurp interfaces for Windows due to its
  horrible legacy codepage system

  Searches for a data file by
  The exact path if the filename is absolute
  In the input_directory, if defined
  In the output_directory, if defined
  Relative to the current directory
  In the same directory as the control file
  Using kpsewhich, if available

  Check existence of NFC/NFD file variants and return correct one.
  Account for windows file encodings

    Wrapper around empty check to deal with Win32 Unicode filenames

    Wrapper around exists check to deal with Win32 Unicode filenames

    Wrapper around various warnings bits and pieces
    Logs a warning, add warning to the list of .bbl warnings and optionally
    increments warning count in Biber object, if present

    Wrapper around error logging
    Forces an exit.

Given a Biber::Names object, return an underscore normalised concatenation of all of the full name strings.

Given a Biber::Name object, return an underscore normalised concatenation of the full name strings.

  Tries to convert UTF-8 to TeX macros in passed string

  Removes elements which are not to be considered during initials generation
  in names

  Removes elements which are not to be used in sorting a name from a string

Remove some things from a string for label generation. Don't strip \p{Dash} as this is needed to process compound names or label generation.

Removes LaTeX macros, and all punctuation, symbols, separators as well as leading and trailing whitespace for sorting strings. Control chars don't need to be stripped as they are completely ignorable in DUCET

Some string normalisation for bblxml output

Removes LaTeX macros, and all punctuation, symbols, separators and control characters, as well as leading and trailing whitespace for sorting strings. Only decodes LaTeX character macros into Unicode if output is UTF-8

  Common bit for normalisation

  Normalise strings used for hashes. We collapse LaTeX macros into a vestige
  so that hashes are unique between things like:
  Smith
  {\v S}mith
  we replace macros like this to preserve their vestiges:
  \v S -> v:
  \" -> 34:

  Like normalise_string, but also substitutes ~ and whitespace with underscore.

  Escapes a few special character which might be used in labels

  Unscapes a few special character which might be used in label but which need
  sorting without escapes

reduce_array(\@a, \@b) returns all elements in @a that are not in @b

    Remove surrounding curly brackets:
        '{string}' -> 'string'
    but not
        '{string} {string}' -> 'string} {string'
    Return (boolean if stripped, string)

    Return (boolean if surrounded in braces

    Add surrounding curly brackets:
        'string' -> '{string}'

    upper case of initial letters in a string

    Checks for undefness of arbitrary things, including
    composite method chain calls which don't reliably work
    with defined() (see perldoc for defined())
    This works because we are just testing the value passed
    to this sub. So, for example, this is randomly unreliable
    even if the resulting value of the arg to defined() is "undef":
    defined($thing->method($arg)->method)
    whereas:
    is_undef($thing->method($arg)->method)
    works since we only test the return value of all the methods
    with defined()

    Checks for definedness in the same way as is_undef()

    Checks for undef or nullness (see is_undef() above)

    Checks for def and unnullness (see is_undef() above)

    Checks for def and nullness (see is_undef() above)

    Checks for nullness

    Checks for notnullness

    Checks for notnullness of a scalar

    Checks for notnullness of an array (passed by ref)

    Checks for notnullness of an hash (passed by ref)

    Checks for notnullness of an object (passed by ref)

    Turns a hash into a string of keys and values

  Normalise any UTF-8 encoding string immediately to exactly what we want
  We want the strict perl utf8 "UTF-8"

   We turn the initials into an array so we can be flexible with them later
   The tie here is used only so we know what to split on. We don't want to make
   any typesetting decisions in Biber, like what to use to join initials so on
   output to the .bbl, we only use BibLaTeX macros.

  Replace all join typsetting elements in a name part (space, ties) with BibLaTeX macros
  so that typesetting decisions are made in BibLaTeX, not hard-coded in Biber

    Process any per_entry option transformations which are necessary on output

    Do an interpolating (neg)match using a match RE and a string passed in as variables
    Using /g on matches so that $1,$2 etc. can be populated from repeated matches of
    same capture group as well as different groups

    Do an interpolating match/replace using a match RE, replacement RE
    and string passed in as variables

  Validate a biber/biblatex XML metadata file against an RNG XML schema

    Convert booleans between strings and numbers. Because standard XML "boolean"
    datatype considers "true" and "1" the same etc.

    Set per-entry options

    Merge entry options, dealing with conflicts

    Expand options such as meta-options coming from biblatex

  Parse of ISO8601 date range

  Parse of ISO8601-2:2016 4.3 unspecified format into date range
  Returns range plus specification of granularity of unspecified

  Convenience wrapper

  Convenience wrapper

  Parse of EDTF dates

  Force month/day to ISO8601-2:2016 format with leading zero

    Perform NFD form conversion as well as UTF-8 conversion. Used to normalize
    bibtex input as the T::B interface doesn't allow a neat whole file slurping.

  Output to target. Outputs NFC UTF-8 if output is UTF-8

  Fix up some problems with comments after being processed by btparse

  Map babel/polyglossia language options to a sensible CLDR (bcp47) locale default
  Return input string if there is no mapping

  Map CLDR (bcp47) locale to a babel/polyglossia locale
  Return input string if there is no mapping

  Calculate the length of a range field
  Range fields are an array ref of two-element array refs [range_start, range_end]
  range_end can be be empty for open-ended range or undef
  Deals with Unicode and ASCII roman numerals via the magic of Unicode NFKD form
  m-n -> [m, n]
  m   -> [m, undef]
  m-  -> [m, '']
  -n  -> ['', n]
  -   -> ['', undef]

  Return array ref of array refs of matches and start indices of matches
  for provided array of compiled regexps into string

  Parses a range of values into a two-value array ref.
  Ranges with no starting value default to "1"
  Ranges can be open-ended and it's up to surrounding code to interpret this
  Ranges can be single figures which is shorthand for 1-x

  Removes annotation marker from a field name

  Parses a range of values into a two-value array ref.
  Either start or end can be undef and it's up to surrounding code to interpret this

  Replace loop markers with values.

  Get a ref to a transliterator for the given from/to
  We are abstracting this in this way because it is not clear what the future
  of the transliteration library is. We want to be able to switch.

  Run a transliterator on passed text. Hides call semantics of transliterator
  so we can switch engine in the future.

Philip Kime "<philip at kime.org.uk>"

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Copyright 2012-2020 Philip Kime, all rights reserved.

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