R: Extract fields from a BibEntry object

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## Extract fields from a BibEntry object

### Description

used to extract a single field from each entry in a BibEntry object

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'BibEntry'
    x$name

### Arguments

`x` | an object of class BibEntry
`name` | the field to extract

### Value

a named list of values for the field specified by name for each entry; `NULL` if the field is not present for a particular entry. The names attribute of the returned list contains the entry keys (potentially back-quoted).

### Note

`name` may be “bibtype” to extract entry types or “key” to extract keys.

### See Also

Other operators: `$<-.BibEntry`, `+.BibEntry`, `[.BibEntry`, `[<-.BibEntry`, `[[.BibEntry`, `[[<-.BibEntry`, `c.BibEntry`

### Examples

    file.name <- system.file("Bib", "biblatexExamples.bib", package="RefManageR")
    bib <- suppressMessages(ReadBib(file.name))
    bib[[50:55]]$author
    bib[[seq_len(5)]]$bibtype

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