Re^4: Extracting Bibliography Citations

shmem,
Oh, no. That isn't fair. Saying "mine is better, but I won't show you" just isn't fair :-(

Hrmm. I certainly wasn't complaining nor was I trying to tell you it wasn't good enough. I purposely avoided sharing what I had come up with as to not influence solutions. The intent of my comment was more along the lines of "The basic strategy is sound with minor tweaking". When I said "but I am looking to improve if possible", I apologize if that came across as "try harder shmem but do so blind". I wanted to indicate that a different strategy all together might be better since minor refinements on the existing one are going to lead to diminishing returns.

Thank you for your contributions. They are valued and appreciated.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^5: Extracting Bibliography Citations by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2008 at 16:59 UTC
Thank you for your contributions. They are valued and appreciated. Fair enough, thank you. - Still I'm blind as to whether a single global match is enough for all cases, since I have not seen other sample data. It certainly isn't more than saying 'citations end with `\dZ)\|pp.<something>` and are followed by two letters', but as long as I see no contradictory data it is good enough... can't code for cases I haven't seen. So, saying Since it doesn't have to be perfect this is fine but I am looking to improve if possible. without giving more clues as to what needs improvement is, well... but of course, my regexp breaks on a citation beginning with e.g "J.Morgan"...	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: Extracting Bibliography Citations
by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2008 at 16:59 UTC

Thank you for your contributions. They are valued and appreciated.

Fair enough, thank you. - Still I'm blind as to whether a single global match is enough for all cases, since I have not seen other sample data. It certainly isn't more than saying 'citations end with \dZ)|pp.<something> and are followed by two letters', but as long as I see no contradictory data it is good enough... can't code for cases I haven't seen. So, saying

Since it doesn't have to be perfect this is fine but I am looking to improve if possible.

without giving more clues as to what needs improvement is, well... but of course, my regexp breaks on a citation beginning with e.g "J.Morgan"...

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