Wikipedia:Lua/Modul/Text/en

Text – Module containing methods for the manipulation of text, wikimarkup and some HTML.

Functions for templates

All methods have an unnamed parameter containing the text.

The return value is an empty string if the parameter does not meet the conditions. When the condition is matched or some result is successfully found, strings of at least one character are returned.

char

Creates a string from a list of character codes.

1

Space-separated list of character codes

*

Number of repetitions of the list in parameter 1 (Default 1).

errors

0 – Silence errors

concatParams

Combine any number of elements into a list, like table.concat() in Lua.

1

First element; missing and empty elements are ignored.

2 3 4 5 6 …

Further list elements

containsCJK

Returns whether the input string contains any CJK characters

• Returns nothing if there are no CJK characters

getPlain

Remove wikimarkup (except templates): comments, tags, bold, italic, nbsp

isLatinRange

Returns some content, unless the string contains a character that would not normally be found in Latin text.

• Returns nothing if there is a non-Latin string.

isQuote

Returns some content if the parameter passed is a single character, and that character is a quote, such as '.

• Returns nothing for multiple characters, or if the character passed is not a quote.

listToText

Formats list elements analogously to mw.text.listToText().

The elements are separated by a comma and space; the word “and” appears between the first and last.

Unnamed parameters become the list items.

Optional parameters for #invoke:

• format – Every list element will first be formatted with this format string; see here for how to construct this string. The string must contain at least one %s sequence.
• template=1 – List elements should be taken from the calling template.

Returns the resulting string.

quote

Wrap the string in quotes; quotes can be chosen for a specific language.

1

Input text (will be automatically trimmed); may be empty.

2

(optional) the ISO 639 language code for the quote marks; should be one of the supported languages

3

(optional) 2 for second level quotes. This means the single quote marks in a statement such as: Jack said, “Jill said ‘fish’ last Tuesday.”

quoteUnquoted

Wrap the string in quotes; quotes can be chosen for a specific language. Will not quote an empty string, and will not quote if there is a quote at the start or end of the (trimmed) string.

1

Input text (will be automatically trimmed); may be empty.

2

(optional) the ISO 639 language code for the quote marks; should be one of the supported languages

3

(optional) 2 for second level quotes. This means the single quote marks in a statement such as: Jack said, “Jill said ‘fish’ last Tuesday.”

removeDiacritics

Removes all diacritical marks from the input.

1

Input text; may be empty.

removeWhitespace

Remove all whitespace, or replace with ASCII space

1

Input text

sentenceTerminated

Is this sentence terminated? Should work with CJK, and allows quotation marks to follow.

• Returns nothing if the sentence is unterminated.

tokenWords

Split text in single space separated words of digits or letters only, but no line breaks nor punctuation or other non-alphanumeric characters.

1

Input text; may be empty. Might contain HTML entities which will be resolved.

ucfirstAll

The first letter of every recognized word is converted to upper case. This contrasts with the parser function {{ucfirst:}} which changes only the first character of the whole string passed.

A few common HTML entities are protected; the implementation of this may mean that numerical entities passed (e.g. &) are converted to & form

unstrip

Remove all elements which probably have been evaluated by an extension.

uprightNonlatin

Takes a string. Italicized non-Latin characters are un-italicized, unless they are a single Greek letter.

zip

Combines a tuple of lists by convolution. This is easiest to explain by example: given two lists, list1 = "a b c" and list2 = "1 2 3", then
zip(liste1, liste2, sep = " ", isep = "-", osep = "/")
outputs
a-1/b-2/c-3

• 1, 2, 3, … – Lists to be combined
• sep – A separator (in Lua regex form) used to split the lists. If empty, the lists are split into individual characters.
• sep1, sep2, sep3, … – Allows a different separator to be used for each list.
• isep – Output separator; placed between elements which were at the same index in their lists.
• osep – Output separator; placed between elements which had different original indices; i.e. between the groups joined with isep

failsafe

Version management

Functions for Lua modules (API)

All of the above functions can be called from other Lua modules, if not Lua library function anyway. Use require(); the below code checks for errors loading it:

local lucky, Text = pcall( require, "Module:Text" )
if type( Text ) == "table" then
    Text = Text()
else
    -- In the event of errors, Text is an error message.
    return "<span class=\"error\">" .. Text .. "</span>"
end

You may then call:

• Text.char( apply, again, accept )
  1. apply
     table (sequence)
     Each element is either (decimal) number, as codepoint, or string which will be sprinkled in.
  2. again
     optional number
     Number of repetitions of the list in apply; defaults to: 1
  3. accept
     optional true
     Suppress error message.
• Text.concatParams( args, apply, adapt )
  1. args
     table (sequence)
     Elements as string.
  2. apply
     optional string
     Separator between elements; defaults to: |
  3. adapt
     optional string
     formatting, which will be applied to each element; must contain: %s
• Text.containsCJK( a )
  • returns: false if not, else true.
• Text.getPlain( a )
• Text.isLatinRange( a )
  • returns: false if not, else true.
• Text.isQuote( a )
  • returns: false if not, else true.
• Text.listToText( args, adapt )
  1. args
     table (sequence)
     Elements as string.
  2. adapt
     optional string
     formatting, which will be applied to each element; must contain: %s
• Text.quote( apply, alien, advance )
  1. apply
     string
     Text.
  2. alien
     optional string
     Language code.
  3. advance
     optional number
     Level; defaults to: 2
• Text.quoteUnquoted( apply, alien, advance )
  1. apply
     string
     Text.
  2. alien
     optional string
     Language code.
  3. advance
     optional number
     Level; defaults to: 2
• Text.removeDiacritics( a )
• Text.removeWhitespace( a )
• Text.sentenceTerminated( a )
  • returns: false if not, else true.
• Text.tokenWords( a )
• Text.ucfirstAll( a )
• Text.uprightNonlatin( a )
• Text.zip(…)
• Text.failsafe( atleast )
  1. atleast
     optional
     nil or minimum version or wikidata or ~ for synchronisation
  • returns: Version ID as string or false
• Text.test( a )

Usage

This is a general library; use it anywhere.

Installation on other WMF projects

Follow the steps:

1. Copy main module Module:Text into your project.
   • If possible keep the name Text.
   • If another name is required due to conflict or naming convention or non-latin script then choose a different one.
2. Register this module at d:Q29387871.
3. To support quotation marks depending on language, you may copy the following sub module, and keep the chosen root name:
   • /quoting
   • Adaption to local language and policy may be needed.
   • One day more globalized support for language dependent quotation marks might become available.
4. Ready.
5. Consider translation of doc page.

Dependencies

• Module:Text/quoting