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Beware that this and all other parsers do not accept leading spaces, cf. skippingSpace. That is when encountering leading white spaces the parser will just return an empty list. If you want to parse a file that contains entirely of BibTeX data you better call skippingLeadingSpace file instead. However, the file parser is more combinable and can be used for files that contain both BibTeX and other data or it can be used for automated filetype checking.

Parse a BibTeX entry like

@article{author2010title,
  author = {Firstname Surname},
  title = {Title},
  year = 2010,
  month = jul,
}

.

Parse an assignment like

author = {Firstname Surname}

.

Parse a value like

jul

or

2010

or

{Firstname Surname}

or

"Firstname Surname"

.

Parse a sequence of texBlocks until the occurrence of a closing character. The closing character is not part of the result.

Parse a single character like a, a LaTeX macro call like \alpha or a block enclosed in curly braces like {\"{a}bc}.

Parse a name of a BibTeX entry like author2010title.

Extends a parser, such that all trailing spaces are skipped. It might be more comfortable to skip all leading spaces, but parser written that way are hard to combine. This is so, since if you run two parsers in parallel and both of them expect leading spaces, then the parser combinator does not know which one of the parallel parsers to choose.

See also: lexeme.

Split a string at the commas and remove leading spaces.

Split a string containing a list of authors in BibTeX notation.