@ Jan, there are a bunch of free text editors available that will allow you to
do a find and replace using regular expressions. Given that you can open up
your .bib file with any text editor this may be helpful for your particular
situation.
@ Christian, thanks for the information about the cite key. Just so I know, If
it’s not a field, how then is it stored?
Cheers,
Jason
Sent from my phone; please pardon any communication catastrophes.
On Jul 23, 2018, at 4:04 AM, Christiaan Hofman
<cmhof...@gmail.com<mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 23 Jul 2018, at 00:01, Jan David Hauck
<jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu<mailto:jan.d.ha...@ucla.edu>> wrote:
Two quick related questions on this:
(1) Is there any particular reason why the Cite Key field can't be used in
Smart Groups (as opposed to Search and Replace)?
(2) In Database Search and Replace I can use regexes to search. Any way how to
construct a Smart Group using regexes?
(1) I don’t see that cite key would be very useful for smart groups. They are
used for identifying items, not containing information of items. The use case
here is very specific (when would cite keys really be distinguishing, and in a
way that you can find logic to distinguish by some simple condition? And it’s a
one time search, not really something you want to keep doing, which is what
smart groups do, so it would be a very inefficient solution.) Moreover, it is
not a field, so the implementation of smart groups and its editing would need
all kinds of special casing for this particular value in several places. A lot
of logic and potential bugs, for no real good reason.
(2) No, that is not possible. It would also be highly inefficient. Smart group
conditions are checked continually, unlike searches.
Christiaan
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