Module:Plain text
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Implements {{Plain text}}. Developed for producing short descriptions from text that may have markup, or other stuff that needs removing from short descriptions.
Usage
- Code
'''[[Foo|hah]]'''<sup>e</sup> <span style="color:red">is</span> '''''[[gah]]'''''<nowiki>?</nowiki>→- hahe is gah?
- Using module
{{#invoke:Plain text|main|1='''[[Foo|hah]]'''<sup>e</sup> <span style="color:red">is</span> '''''[[gah]]'''''<nowiki>?</nowiki>}}→- Lua error at line 6: attempt to index global 'args' (a nil value).
See also
--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar"
--also strips out flags and images if desired
local p = {}
function p.main(frame)
text = frame.args[1]
if args.flag then text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '<span class="flagicon">.-</span>', '') end --strip out flags
if args.file then text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[File:.-%]%]', '') end --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, '%]', '')
return text
end
return p