Module:Month translator: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:04, 20 December 2018

Revision as of 14:14, 20 December 2018

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if c1 then -- c1 always set on match

t = {

[pattern[2] or 'x'] = c1, -- fill the table of captures with the rest of the captures

[pattern[3] or 'x'] = c2, -- take index names from pattern table and assign sequential captures

[pattern[4] or 'x'] = c3, -- index name may be nil in pattern table so "or 'x'" spoofs a name for this index in this table

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day = t.d or ''; -- translate table contents to named variables;

month = mw.ustring.lower (t.m or ''); -- absent table entries are nil so set unused parts to empty string; lowercase for indexing

month = data.override_names[month] or data.month_names[month]; -- replace non-English name with English name from translation tables

year= t.y or '';

if month then

if data.month_names[month] then -- look in translation table for non-English month name; TODO: add support for an override table for when MediaWiki is wrong

if 'dmy' == pattern[5] then -- for dmy dates

return table.concat ({day, data.month_names[month], year}, ' '); -- assemble an English language dmy date

elseif 'my' == pattern[5] then -- for month year dates

return table.concat ({data.month_names[month], year}, ' '); -- assemble an English language dmy date

end

end