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The "Text::BibTeX" module serves mainly as a high-level introduction to
the "Text::BibTeX" library, for both code and documentation purposes.
The code loads the two fundamental modules for processing BibTeX files
("Text::BibTeX::File" and "Text::BibTeX::Entry"), and this
documentation gives a broad overview of the whole library that isn't
available in the documentation for the individual modules that comprise
it.

In addition, the "Text::BibTeX" module provides a number of
miscellaneous functions that are useful in processing BibTeX data
(especially the kind that comes from bibliographies as defined by BibTeX
0.99, rather than generic database files).  These functions don't
generally fit in the object-oriented class hierarchy centred around the
"Text::BibTeX::Entry" class, mainly because they are specific to
bibliographic data and operate on generic strings (rather than being
tied to a particular BibTeX entry).  These are also documented here, in
"MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS".

Note that every module described here begins with the "Text::BibTeX"
prefix.  For brevity, I have dropped this prefix from most class and
module names in the rest of this manual page (and in most of the other
manual pages in the library).

Package perl-Text-BibTeX: Information

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