Re: RIS import errors

Hi,

Z F <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> I have created a RIS file manually.
>
> Major points are that each reference starts from an empty line
> followed by TY  - field and ends by ER  -
>
> In the middle, there are some other fields.
> The problem I have is that when I use addref to load the data into
> the database, all the references are recored as on, i.e. only one ID
> is issued. If I split the file into many so that each file contains
> a single reference without modification of the reference content,
> the addref operation is successful on every file.
>

Please make sure that the end-of-reference tag has the trailing space. That is,
if "_" stands for a space, you have to use "ER__-_". If you use either vim or
Emacs as an editor, please have a look at:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/vim.html
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/emacs.html

Both editors can do syntax coloring which makes it easy to spot typos like
these.

BTW this error can also explain the JF/JO problem that you reported in a
separate mail. If you have two consecutive references, one with JO, the other
with JF, separated by an invalid end-of-reference tag, then RefDB will make the
JO and JF contents synonyms of the same periodical.

regards,
Markus


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