Module:Template redirect regex/sandbox

local p = {}

--returns a table of regular expressions, sorted by descending popularity, for a parent template and all redirects to it as of a certain date, or nil --regex for the 1st pipe and surrounding whitespace are purposefully omitted to give the calling modules more flexibility function p.main( template )

--expand the following table as-needed, following the same regex and comment format local tCanonical_templates = { ['Category redirect'] = { --the following 11 pages (6 condensed) redirect to, as of 2022/9: '{{ *[Cc]ate?g?o?r?y?[ _]*[rR]edirect',	--parent+505+312+243+1 transclusions '{{ *[Cc]atr',							--21 '{{ *[Cc]at[ _]*[rR]edir',				--5+3 '{{ *[Cc]at[ _]*[rR]ed',				--3+2 '{{ *[Cc]at[ _]*[mM]ove',				--1 '{{ *[Cc]ategory[ _]*[mM]ove',			--0 },		['Taxonbar'] = { --the following 6 pages (3 condensed) redirect to {{Taxonbar}}, as of 2023/8: '{{ *[Tt]axon?[ _-]?[bB]ar',		--parent+50+11+2+2 transclusions '{{ *[Tt]axon[Ii]ds',				--45 '{{ *[Tt]axon[ _]*[iI]dentifiers',	--1 },	}	return tCanonical_templates[template] or nil end

return p