Module:Sandbox

Module documentation (view)

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Usage

This is the general sandbox page to test out Lua modules. The module should not be implemented in a template.

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local p = {}
local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs

function split(str, pattern)
    local out = {}
    for m in string.gmatch(str, "[^" .. pattern .. "]+") do
      table.insert(out, m)
    end
    return out
end

function isEmpty(s)
	return s == nil or s == ''
end

function search(category, substrings)
    for k,v in pairs(substrings) do
        if string.find(category, v) then
            return true
        end
    end
    return false
end

-- From Lua-User Wiki: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SciteTitleCase
function titlecase(str)
	local titleName = ''
	local buf = {}
	local inWord = false
	for i = 1, #str do
		local c = string.sub(str, i, i)
		if inWord then
			table.insert(buf, c)
			if string.find(c, '%s') or string.find(c, '-') then
				inWord = false
			end
		else
			table.insert(buf, string.upper(c))
			inWord = true
		end
	end
	return table.concat(buf)
end

function p.main(frame)
    local args         = getArgs(frame)
	local name         = args['1'] or ''
    local titleCase    = titlecase(name)
    return p.keepLowercase(titleCase)
end

function p.keepLowercase(str)
	local small = {"Al", "And", "An", "As", "At", "By", "En", "De", "Di", "For", "If", "In", "N", "Nor", "O", "Of", "On", "Or", "Only", "Over", "Per", "So", "Some", "That", "Than", "The", "To", "Upon", "Vs", "Versus", "Via", "Where", "When", "With", "Without", "Yet"}
	if search(str:gsub("^%l", string.upper), small) == true then
		for k,v in pairs(small) do
        	if string.find(str, "%p" .. v .. "%p") then
            	str = str:gsub("%p" .. v .. "%p", string.lower)
            elseif string.find(str, "%s" .. v .. "%s") then
            	str = str:gsub("%s" .. v .. "%s", string.lower)
        	end
    	end
	end
	return str
end

return p