Difference between revisions of "Module:Plain text"

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--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar"
 
--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar"
--removes anything enclosed in tags that mediawiki doesn't convert to strip markers (fails with nested tags too) and files, and italic and bold markup
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--removes anything enclosed in tags that isn't nested, mediawiki strip markers (references etc), files, italic and bold markup
 
local p = {}
 
local p = {}
  
 
function p.main(frame)
 
function p.main(frame)
 
local text = frame.args[1]
 
local text = frame.args[1]
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text = mw.text.killMarkers (text)
 
text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out tags  
 
text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out tags  
 
text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[File:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files
 
text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[File:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files

Revision as of 19:05, 16 April 2018

Implements {{Plain text}}. Developed for producing short descriptions from text that may have markup, or other stuff that needs removing from short descriptions.

Usage

{{#invoke:Plain text|main|'''[[foo|hah]]''' is '''''[[gah]]'''''}} --> hah is gah

See also


--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar"
--removes anything enclosed in tags that isn't nested, mediawiki strip markers (references etc), files, italic and bold markup
local p = {}

function p.main(frame)
	local text = frame.args[1]
	text = mw.text.killMarkers (text)
	text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out tags 
	text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[File:.-%]%]', '') --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