Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding file with PMID in title

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On Jun 12, 2010, at 23:42, Gregory Jefferis wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> On 2010-06-12 21:12, "Adam R. Maxwell" <ama...@ma...> wrote:
> 
>> Doesn't +itemByParsingPDFFile: do this now?  I just glanced at the code, and
>> it seems to try and use the file name as a search term first.
>> 
>> + (id)itemByParsingPDFFile:(NSString *)pdfPath;
>> {
>> BibItem *bi=nil;
>> 
>> // see if we can find any bibliographic info in the filename
>> NSString *pubMedSearch=nil;
>> pubMedSearch=[[[pdfPath lastPathComponent] stringByDeletingPathExtension]
>> stringByMakingPubmedSearchFromAnyBibliographicIDsInString];
>> if(pubMedSearch!=nil){
>> bi=[BibItem itemWithPubMedSearchTerm:pubMedSearch];
>> if(bi!=nil) return bi;
>> }
> 
> StringByMakingPubmedSearchFromAnyBibliographicIDsInString will only look for
> dois and Elsevier/NPG PIIs which are MUCH more specific than PMIDs (which
> are just an 8 digit number).
> 
> Greg.
> 

I remember now. The problem is that there's absolutely no reason to think that just some arbitrary number should be interpreted as a PMID. For instance, the arXiv also uses numbers for PDF file names. 

So using an Import script hook would be the way to go.

Christiaan