Displaying Links as Text in Dataview query

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1

How can I get a Dataview query to exclude Link characters?

Output

I have highlighted the issue. I want this to read: West, Cornel instead

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YAML

---
bID: West
Type: Misc
Date: 2018-12-06
---
Heading
**Author**:: [[West, Cornel]]

Code

dv.span("```latex" + `
@${dv.current().Type.toUpperCase()}{${dv.current().bID}${dv.current().Date.year}, 
	title={${dv.current().file.name}},
	author={${dv.current().Author}}
},\n` + "```");

Requirements

If possible, I would like this to be robust to multiple links. If a YAML had 1, 2, or 3 authors, can this generate my Author field properly.

All author entry formats will be [[Last, First]] when applicable
Example: **Author**:: [[West, Cornel]] [[Da Vinci, Leonardo]] [[Socrates]]

2

The path field of a link will give you the text of the filename the link is referring to.

I think here you would want to call the string split() function with space as your delimiter, get the .path on each of the links, then call join again to turn the split array back into a string.

3

What is the syntax for using space as a delimiter?

Right now:

author=split(${dv.current().Author}, " ")[1]

gives

author=split([[Foucault, Michel]], " ")[1]