On Jan 5, 2015, at 4:01, Jan David Hauck wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to create a template with full firstnames of authors and am
> running into trouble with authors that have a middle name initial listed with
> a fullstop. I don't want the fullstop after their middle name initial to
> create two consecutive fullstops in the output.
>
> In my bibliography some of the authors are listed as
> Lastname, Firstname
> some as
> Lastname, Firstname M.
> others
> Lastname, F. M. (if they go by their initials)
>
> They should render as
> Lastname, Firstname. 1990. Title
> Lastname, Firstname M. 1990. Title
> Lastname, F. M. 1990. Title
>
> For the last two cases I'm getting
> Lastname, Firstname M.. 1990. Title
> Lastname, F. M.. 1990. Title
>
> Is there anything that would achieve something like a modifier
> stringByAppendingFullStopUnlessFullstopAlreadyPresent ... ;)
>
> Basically something that only places a full stop somewhere if the preceding
> character is not a full stop.
>
> Or any other suggestion of a workaround?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Jan
You could do something like
<$authors.normalizedName.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd.stringByAppendingFullStopIfNotEmpty/>
This will not add the period when there already was one at the end.
Christiaan
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