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update from Module:String2/sandbox: tweaks + findpagetext won't fail if given an invalid or nonexistent page title
(add optional spacing parameter to hyphen2dash for improved support in templates r/rp/ran. Default is a normal space after the separating comma.)
(update from Module:String2/sandbox: tweaks + findpagetext won't fail if given an invalid or nonexistent page title)
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if plain:sub(1, 1) == "f" then plain = false else plain = true end
-- get the page content and look for 'text' - return position or nomatch
local content = titleobj and titleobj:getContent()
return content and mw.ustring.find(content, text, 1, plain) or nomatch -- returns multiple values
end
p.findpagetext = function(frame)
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-- Escape Pattern helper function so that all characters are treated as plain text, as per Module:String
function p._escapePattern( pattern_str)
return mw.ustring.gsub( pattern_str, "([%(%)%.%%%+%-%*%?%[%^%$%]])", "%%%1" );
end
 
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function p.strip( frame )
local new_args = p._getParameters( frame.args, {'source', 'chars', 'plain'} )
local source_str = new_args['source'] or '';
local chars = new_args['chars'] or '' or 'characters';
source_str = mw.text.trim(source_str);
if source_str == '' or chars == '' then
return source_str;
end
local l_plain = p._getBoolean( new_args['plain'] or true );
if l_plain then
chars = p._escapePattern( chars );
end
local result;
result = mw.ustring.gsub(source_str, "["..chars.."]", '')
return result;
end
 
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function p.hyphen_to_dash( str, spacing )
if (str == nil or str == '') then
return str;
end
 
local accept;
 
str = mw.text.decode(str, true ) -- replace html entities with their characters; semicolon mucks up the text.split
 
local out = {};
local list = mw.text.split (str, '%s*[,;]%s*'); -- split str at comma or semicolon separators if there are any
 
for _, item in ipairs (list) do -- for each item in the list
item = mw.text.trim(item) -- trim whitespace
item, accept = item:gsub ('^%(%((.+)%)%)$', '%1');
if accept == 0 and mw.ustring.match (item, '^%w*[%.%-]?%w+%s*[%-–—]%s*%w*[%.%-]?%w+$') then -- if a hyphenated range or has endash or emdash separators
if item:match ('^%a+[%.%-]?%d+%s*%-%s*%a+[%.%-]?%d+$') or -- letterdigit hyphen letterdigit (optional separator between letter and digit)
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item:match ('^%d+%s*%-%s*%d+$') or -- digit hyphen digit
item:match ('^%a+%s*%-%s*%a+$') then -- letter hyphen letter
item = item:gsub ('(%w*[%.%-]?%w+)%s*%-%s*(%w*[%.%-]?%w+)', '%1–%2'); -- replace hyphen, remove extraneous space characters
else
item = mw.ustring.gsub (item, '%s*[–—]%s*', '–'); -- for endash or emdash separated ranges, replace em with en, remove extraneous whitespace
end
end
table.insert (out, item); -- add the (possibly modified) item to the output table
end
 
local temp_str = table.concat (out, ',' .. spacing); -- concatenate the output table into a comma separated string
temp_str, accept = temp_str:gsub ('^%(%((.+)%)%)$', '%1'); -- remove accept-this-as-written markup when it wraps all of concatenated out
if accept ~= 0 then
temp_str = str:gsub ('^%(%((.+)%)%)$', '%1'); -- when global markup removed, return original str; do it this way to suppress boolean second return value
return temp_str;
else
return temp_str; -- else, return assembled temp_str
end
return temp_str;
end
 
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local str = frame.args[1] or ''
local spacing = frame.args[2] or ' ' -- space is part of the standard separator for normal spacing (but in conjunction with templates r/rp/ran we may need a narrower spacing
 
return p.hyphen_to_dash(str, spacing)
end
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