Module:NUMBEROFSECTIONS: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:43, 8 December 2018

Revision as of 19:48, 8 December 2018

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local p = {}

-- Unescape functionality grabbed from https://stackoverflow.com/a/14899740/1832568

local function unescape(str)

str = string.gsub(str, '&#(%d+);', function(n) return string.char(n) end)

str = string.gsub(str, '&#x(%d+);', function(n) return string.char(tonumber(n, 16)) end)

return str

end

-- Counting function accepting a string haystack and table of needles

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local haystack = ''

-- Separate page names from # delimited string into table

local titlespages = mw.text.split(unescape(frame.args[1]), '%s?#%s?')

titles = titles:gsub("'", "'") -- workaround astonishing bug: {{FULLPAGENAME}} gives "'" for apostrophe!

local pages = mw.text.split(titles, '%s?#%s?')

-- Separate whitespace delimited section level numbers into table

local levels = mw.text.split(frame.args['level'], '%s*')