Module:Separated entries/sandbox

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Usage

Module:Separated entries and {{Separated entries}} serve as a template front-end to mw.text.listToText. They take any number of positional parameters and piece them together with |separator=. |conjunction= can be optionally defined if a different separator is desired between the last and second last items. The starting positional parameter can be specified using |start=. Leading and trailing whitespace is stripped. To add deliberate leading and trailing whitespace, use the HTML entity   for a space and 
 for a "newline". Separated entries does not raise any errors by design.

{{#invoke:separated entries|main|separator=...}}

For more complex cases – such as selecting the parameters to list, or preprocessing them, or omitting the last parameters – {{#invoke:params|list_values}} is available. The following two examples with “ + ” as delimiter and “ ... ” as conjunction produce a similar result:

1. {{#invoke:separated entries|main|separator= + |conjunction= ... }}
2. {{#invoke:params|sequential|squeezing|trimming_values|setting|i/l| + | ... |list_values}}

See also

• {{Enum}}
• {{Br separated entries}}
• {{#invoke:params|list_values}}

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-- This module takes positional parameters as input and concatenates them with
-- an optional separator. The final separator (the "conjunction") can be
-- specified independently, enabling natural-language lists like
-- "foo, bar, baz and qux".

local compressSparseArray = require('Module:TableTools').compressSparseArray
local p = {}

function p._main(args, separator, conjuction)
	separator = args.separator or separator or ''
	conjunction = args.conjunction or conjunction or separator
	local values = compressSparseArray(args)
	return mw.text.listToText(values, separator, conjunction)
end

local function makeInvokeFunction(separator, conjunction)
	return function (frame)
		local args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs(frame, {
			parentOnly = true
		})
		return p._main(args, separator, conjunction)
	end
end

p.main = makeInvokeFunction()
p.br = makeInvokeFunction('<br />')
p.comma = makeInvokeFunction(mw.message.new('comma-separator'):plain())

return p