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 7: attempt to call global 'p_main' (a nil value).
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] or ''
return p_main(text)
end
function p._main(text)
text = mw.text.killMarkers(text)
:gsub('<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out tags
:gsub('%[%[%s*File%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files
:gsub('%[%[.-|', '') --strip out piped link text
:gsub('[%[%]]', '') --then strip out remaining [ and ]
:gsub("'''''", "") --strip out bold italic markup
:gsub("'''?", "") --not stripping out '''' gives correct output for bolded text in quotes
return text
end
return p