Module:Plain text

--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "gah is bar" to "gah is bar" --removes anything enclosed in tags and files, and italic and bold markup local p = {}

function p.main(frame) local text = frame.args[1] text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out flags, plus any other tags, e.g footnotes text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%', '') --strip out files text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[.-|', '') --strip out piped link text text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[', '') --then strip out remaining [ and ] text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%]', '') text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, "'", "") --strip out italic and bold markup text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, "?", "") --not stripping out ' gives correct output for bolded text in quotes return text end

return p