Module:Sandbox/DannyS712/gen

local p = {};

function p.sort( frame ) --local wikitable = frame.args[1] local wikitable = '! data-sort-type="alpha; first: ascending; initial: 30;" | Countries\n! data-sort-type="number; first: descending; initial: 1;" | Population\n! data-sort-type="date; first: ascending; initial: 2;" | Date' local rows = mw.text.split( wikitable, '\n' ) local rowstosort = {} for _, row in ipairs( rows ) do		mw.log( tostring(row) ) local indexStart = string.find( row, 'initial: %d' ) --		mw.logObject( indexStart ) local fromStart = string.sub( row, indexStart + 9 ) --		mw.logObject( fromStart ) local indexEnd = string.find( fromStart, '[^0-9]', 1) --		mw.logObject( indexEnd ) local sortValue = string.gsub( string.sub( fromStart, 0, indexEnd ), ';', '' ) mw.log( sortValue ) rowstosort[ sortValue ] = row end mw.logObject( rows ) mw.logObject( rowstosort ) return rows end

return p