Module:Plain text
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Developed for producing short descriptions from text that may have markup, or other stuff that needs removing from short descriptions.
Usage
සංස්කරණය{{#invoke:Plain text|main|'''[[foo|hah]]''' is '''''[[gah]]'''''}} --> hah is gah
--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]
return p._main(text)
end
function p._main(text)
if not text then return end
text = mw.text.killMarkers(text)
:gsub(' ', ' ') --replace nbsp spaces with regular spaces
:gsub('<br ?/?>', ', ') --replace br with commas
:gsub('<span.->(.-)</span>', '%1') --remove spans while keeping text inside
:gsub('<i.->(.-)</i>', '%1') --remove italics while keeping text inside
:gsub('<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out remaining tags and the text inside
:gsub('<.->', '') --remove any other tag markup
:gsub('%[%[%s*[Ff]ile%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files
:gsub('%[%[%s*[Ii]mage%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out use of image:
:gsub('%[%[%s*[Cc]ategory%s*:.-%]%]', '') --strip out categories
: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
:gsub('----', '') --remove ---- lines
:gsub("^%s+", "") --strip leading
:gsub("%s+$", "") --and trailing spaces
:gsub("%s+", " ") --strip redundant spaces
return text
end
return p