Module:Ustring/sandbox
See also the companion subpage for test cases (run).
Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikipedia user interface.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the module's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own module sandbox. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.
This module directly imports all functions from the mw.ustring library. Documentation for each function can be found there.
The module takes an indefinite number of arguments. Arguments given as |s1=, |s2=, etc, are read first, and are used as strings. All remaining numerical arguments are coerced to number type if possible, and remain strings if not. If you wish for a numerical (i.e. unnamed or "|1=", "|2=") to remain a string, you can simply escape it by inserting \ at the beginning of the string.
Note that MediaWiki will always trim whitespace from named arguments; to give arguments with surrounding whitespace you must use unnamed parameters starting with \.
| To pass this... | Write this | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
" 0123 " |
|\ 123 |
To get surrounding whitespace must use unnamed, but must precede with \ to indicate that it isn't a number.
|
"0123" |
|s1=0123 |
If you don't need to preserve whitespace use |s1= etc.
|
"0123" |
|1=0123円 |
If you don't need to preserve whitespace explicitly use |1= etc.
|
In another template, to pass its parameter {{{1}}}, preserving whitespace |
|\{{{1}}} |
Must provide the \ with unknown string input.
|
In another template, to pass its parameter {{{1}}}, stripping whitespace |
|s1={{{1}}} |
|
In another template, to pass its parameter {{{1}}}, stripping whitespace |
|1=\{{#if:1|{{{1}}}}} |
You can also wrap results in tags. All other unused arguments will be passed to
frame:extensionTag
Usage
[edit ]{{#invoke:Ustring|function_name|arg1|arg2|...}} is equivalent to mw.ustring.function_name
(arg1,arg2,...)
Example using mw.ustring.sub
[edit ]{{#invoke:Ustring|sub|s1=abcde|2|4}}
produces:
bcd
Example using mw.ustring.gsub
[edit ]{{#invoke:Ustring|gsub|s1=1234|23|}}
produces:
14
Example using mw.ustring.char
[edit ]&#{{#invoke:ustring|char|49|48|59}}
produces:
Example using mw.ustring.match
[edit ]{{#invoke:Ustring|match|s1=abcde|s2=(c%w)}}
produces:
cd
Note: Only the first match is returned. Additional returns are omitted because mw.ustring.gsub's second return value is generally undesirable.
Example using tag arguments
[edit ]{{#invoke:Ustring|match
|s1={{Module:Ustring}}|%s%s%sif%snot%s[^%s]+%sthen.+%
<!--enter an actual newline character to match '\n'-->%s%s%send
|tag=syntaxhighlight|lang=lua}}
produces:
ifnotfargs.tagthen return(what(unpack(args)))-- Outside parens truncate to first result avoiding tail call end localtagargs={} forx,yinpairs(fargs)do ifnotfargsused[x]thentagargs[x]=yend end
Note that:
<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">{{#invoke:Ustring|match
|s1={{Module:Ustring}}|%s%s%sif%snot%s[^%s]+%sthen.+%
<!--enter an actual newline character to match '\n'-->%s%s%send}}</syntaxhighlight>
produces:
{{#invoke:Ustring|match |s1={{Module:Ustring}}|%s%s%sif%snot%s[^%s]+%sthen.+% <!--enter an actual newline character to match '\n'-->%s%s%send}}
Errors
[edit ]Errors from accessing mw.ustring should be maintained, e.g.:
{{#invoke:Ustring|xyzzy}}
should produce:
Script error: The function "xyzzy" does not exist.
and
{{#invoke:Ustring|maxPatternLength}}
should produce:
Script error: "maxPatternLength" is not a function.
See also
[edit ]Editors can experiment in this module's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit | run) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this module.
require('strict') returnsetmetatable({},{ __index=function(t,k) localwhat=mw.ustring[k] iftype(what)~="function"then returnwhat end returnfunction(frame) localfargs=frame.args localfargsused={tag=true,onerror=true} localargs={} localstr_i=1 whilefargs['s'..str_i]do fargsused['s'..str_i]=true args[str_i]=fargs['s'..str_i] str_i=str_i+1 end fori,vinipairs(fargs)do fargsused[i]=true args[i+str_i-1]=tonumber(v)orv:gsub("^\\","",1) end localresult=nil iffargs.onerrorthen localsuccess success,result=pcall(what,unpack(args)) ifnotsuccessthen returnfargs.onerror end else result=what(unpack(args)) end ifnotfargs.tagthen returnresult end localtagargs={} forx,yinpairs(fargs)do ifnotfargsused[x]thentagargs[x]=yend end returnframe:extensionTag{name=fargs.tag,content=result,args=tagargs} end end })