Module:Births and deaths by year for decade/sandbox

local p = {} local uc = {births="Births", deaths="Deaths"}

local page_content = {} local function get_section(frame, page_name, section_name) if page_content[page_name] == nil then local title = mw.title.new(page_name) if title then if title.redirectTarget then title = title.redirectTarget end page_content[page_name] = title:getContent end end if page_content[page_name] then if mw.ustring.find(page_content[page_name], "=%s*" .. section_name .. "%s*=", 1, false) then return frame:preprocess("") end end return '' end

local function transclude(frame, entry, year, article) local s = " " s = frame:preprocess(s) .. get_section(frame, article, uc[entry]) s = mw.ustring.gsub(s, '==+[^=]-==+%s*%c*', '') return mw.ustring.match(s, '.*%*.*%a.+') end

function p.main(frame) local decade = mw.text.trim(frame.args[1] or frame:getParent.args[1] or '0') local result = {} local article_list = {} local year_list = {}

if decade:sub(1, 1) == '-' then for i = -9, (decade == '-0' and -1 or 0) do			table.insert(article_list, frame:expandTemplate {				title = "Year article",				args = { decade .. '0', tostring(i) }			}) table.insert(year_list, decade .. math.abs(i)) end else for i = (decade == '0' and 1 or 0), 9 do			table.insert(article_list, frame:expandTemplate {				title = "Year article",				args = { decade .. '0', tostring(i) }			}) table.insert(year_list, decade .. tostring(i)) end end for i, entry in ipairs({"births", "deaths"}) do table.insert(result, '== ' .. uc[entry] .. '==\n') table.insert(result, frame:expandTemplate { title = "transcluding article", args = article_list})

for i, article in ipairs(article_list) do			table.insert(result, transclude(frame, entry, year_list[i], article)) end end return table.concat(result) end

return p