Module:Sort title/sandbox

local match = require("Module:String")._match

local p = {}

-- Local function which is used to return a number without commas. For example: 4,722 will become 4722. -- local function cleanNumberFromCommas(title) return string.gsub(title, "(%d+)(,+)", "%1") end

-- Local function which is used to check if the word is an article. Returns true if it is, false if it isn't. -- local function isFirstWordAnArticle(word) word = string.lower(word) return (word == "a" or word == "an" or word == "the") end

-- Local function which is used to return the title without its disambiguation. -- local function getTitleWithoutDisambiguation(title, disambiguation) local newTitle = string.gsub(title, "%(".. disambiguation .. "%)", "")	return mw.text.trim(newTitle) end

-- Local function which is used to return a title without its first word. -- local function getTitleWithoutFirstWord(title) return mw.ustring.gsub(title, "^[^%s]*%s*", "") end

-- Local function which is used to return the first word from a title. -- local function getFirstWord(title) return match(title, "^[^%s]*", 1, 1, false, "") end

-- Local function which is used to return a sort key for a specific part. -- local function getSortKey(title, firstWord) local sortKey = title if (isFirstWordAnArticle(firstWord) and firstWord ~= title) then title = getTitleWithoutFirstWord(title) sortKey = title .. ", " .. firstWord end return sortKey end

-- Local function which is used to return the disambiguation sort key. -- local function getDisambiguationSortKey(disambiguation) if (disambiguation == "") then return "" end local firstWord = getFirstWord(disambiguation) local disambiguationSortKey = getSortKey(disambiguation, firstWord) return "(" .. disambiguationSortKey .. ")" end

-- Local function which is used to return the disambiguation from a title. -- local function getDisambiguation(title) local disambiguation = match(title, "%s%((.-)%)", 1, -1, false, "") if (disambiguation == "") then return "" else return disambiguation end end

-- The main function. -- local function _main(title) if (not title) then title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle.text end

local firstWord = getFirstWord(title) local disambiguation = getDisambiguation(title) local disambiguationSortKey = getDisambiguationSortKey(disambiguation) title = getTitleWithoutDisambiguation(title, disambiguation) title = cleanNumberFromCommas(title) title = getSortKey(title, firstWord) local sortKey = title .. " " .. disambiguationSortKey return mw.text.trim(sortKey) end

-- Public function which allows modules to retrieve a sort key. -- function p._getSortKey return _main(nil) end

-- Public function which allows templates to retrieve a sort key. -- function p.getSortKey(frame) return _main(nil) end

-- Public function which allows templates to retrieve the sort key inside a DEFAULTSORT. -- function p.getDefaultSort(frame) local sortKey = _main(nil) return frame:preprocess{text = ""} end

-- Public function which is used for testing various names and not the current page name. -- function p.testcases(frame) local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs local args = getArgs(frame) return _main(args[1]) end

return p