Sure, just add:
if newDOI starts with "doi:" then
set newDOI to text 5 thru -1 of newDOI
set field "doi" of thePub to newDOI
end if
Or here's some lazy (and bad) code that looks for the first numeric
character:
repeat with iChar from 1 to number of characters of newDOI
if character iChar of newDOI is in "0123456789" then exit repeat
end repeat
set newDOI to text iChar thru -1 of newDOI
set field "doi" of thePub to newDOI
On 2008-05-05, at 10:24 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Monday, May 05, 2008, at 09:56AM, "Alex Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> On 2008-05-04, at 6:40 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed. It might be feasible to extend the current special-case
>>> handling of DOI, but special cases suck. You could look into
>>> adding a
>>> script hook that fires when the DOI field is set, and then the
>>> onus is
>>> on you to keep it working :). I think that's actually the way DOI
>>> is
>>> designed to work, but it would have been easier if they'd made it a
>>> URL instead of a URI that requires additional context (e.g. as an
>>> attribute in XML) to be useful.
>>
>> That's exactly what I've done. The following not only sets a URL, but
>> also checks your URLs to see if a previous value of the DOI is
>> entered
>> as a URL, and replaces it if needed. If you delete the DOI, it
>> deletes
>> the URL as well.
>
> Thanks! This works really well. How hard would it be to strip any
> leading non-numeric characters, so it would work with stuff like doi:
> 10.xxx? BibDesk uses the fact that DOI names always starts with
> "10" to normalize strings before converting them to DOI:
>
> http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/enumeration.html#2.2 (see 2.2.1)
>
> Sometimes I wish I could write AppleScript as well as read it...
>
> --
> adam
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