Re: [Refdb-users] Numbers only in PY?

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Daniel O'Donnell <dan...@ul...> 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

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