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Bibtex work parser that lowercase's properties
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| /* | |
| this is a snippet of the class that does this processing | |
| */ | |
| foreach ($bibliography as &$work){ | |
| foreach ($work as $key => $value) { //iterates over the properties of the work (an individual citation) one by one | |
| if ($key != "author") { //does every property except author | |
| $work[$key] = self::sentenceCase($work[$key], $key); //lowercases everything but the bracketed words | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } | |
| /* | |
| this is the function that does the lowercasing and bracket exclusion. | |
| it's probably not important, but this is it if you were curious. | |
| */ | |
| private function sentenceCase($sentence) { | |
| preg_match_all('/(?<!\\\)\{(?!\\\)([^\}]+)}/', $sentence, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE); | |
| $sentence = strtolower($sentence); | |
| for ($i = 0; $i < count($matches[0]); $i++) { | |
| $sentence = substr_replace($sentence, $matches[1][$i][0], $matches[0][$i][1] - (2 * $i), strlen($matches[0][$i][0])); | |
| } | |
| return ucfirst($sentence); | |
| } |
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