Module:NUMBEROFSECTIONS: Difference between revisions

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local p = {}

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

local function count(rawhaystack, seclevsneedles)

local nosnumber = 0

local index = 1

local levneedle = seclevsneedles[index]

-- While we have needles to look for

while levneedle do

for m in string.gmatch(raw, "\n" .. lev .. "[^=]") do

-- find them all in our haystack

nos = nos + 1

for m in string.gmatch(rawhaystack, "\n" .. lev .. "[^=]"needle) do

nosnumber = nosnumber + 1

end

index = index + 1

levneedle = seclevsneedles[index]

end

return nosnumber

end

-- Function accepting a page name and section level numbers

function p.sections(frame)

local levelsneedles = {}

local levellevels = frame.args[2]

local title = mw.title.new(frame.args[1])

-- For every section level number

for valuelevel in mw.text.gsplit(levellevels, "") do

if valuelevel ~= " " then

levels[#levels + 1] = string.rep("=", tonumber(value))

-- add the needle to our table of needles

needles[#needles + 1] = "\n" ..

levels[#levels + 1] = string.rep("=", tonumber(valuelevel)) .. "[^=]"

end

end

-- then return how many needles are in our haystack

return count(title:getContent(), levelsneedles)

end