Module:Sandbox/RexxS/Getdateformat

-- Test module to look at performance of extracting the date format from one of the style maintenance templates. Based entirely on Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration lines 438-468 --

p = {}

local df_template_patterns = { "{{ *[Uu]se (dmy)", "{{ *[Uu]se *(mdy)", "{{ *[Uu]se *([Dd][Mm][Yy])", "{{ *[Uu]se *([Mm][Dd][Yy])", "{{ *([Dd][Mm][Yy])", "{{ *([Mm][Dd][Yy])" }

local function get_date_format local pagecontent = mw.title.getCurrentTitle:getContent or ''; for idx, pattern in ipairs (df_template_patterns) do		local first, last, match = pagecontent:find(pattern); if match then return match:lower end end end

function p.getFormat(frame) return get_date_format end

function p.null(frame) return end

return p