Re: Numbers only in PY?
Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]>
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Daniel O'Donnell <[email protected]> was heard to say: > 1) How would people recommend handling works with a range as a PY? > The PY field as mandated by RIS has the following format: YYYY/MM/DD/<text> That is, the date proper cannot be a range. However, you can encode the range as a free-form text in the trailing optional <text>. This is probably less than you had hoped for, but at least you can preserve the information. > 2) Am I right that, in mysql at least, searches for non-numerical > characters in PY don't work? I keep getting errors when I try something > like getref :PY:~- or getref :PY:~\- or getref :PY:~[-] getref :PY:=- > This is right. :PY: refers only to the publication year. This is treated as a numerical value internally. I wonder if it should be treated as a date (including the month and day info, if available) instead. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka [email protected] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642