Module:Type in location/sandbox

local p = {} local plaintext = require("Module:Plain text")._main local language = mw.language.getContentLanguage

--Cleanup/format location for use in short descriptions function p.prepareLoc (frame) return p._prepareLoc (frame.args[1]) end

function p._prepareLoc (text) text = plaintext(text) text = text..',' --comma at the end makes things convenient text = mw.ustring.gsub(text,'%b', ', ') --remove things in brackets as extraneous information text = mw.ustring.gsub(text,'[^%s,]*%d[^%s,]*', '') --remove things with digits as generally being unnecessary postal codes/road numbers etc text = mw.ustring.gsub(text,'(,%s-),', '%1') --fix possible blank separated commas from previous cleanup text = mw.ustring.gsub(text,'%s%s', ' ') --fix possible extra spaces from previous cleanup text = mw.ustring.gsub(text,'^[%s,]*', '') --trim commas and spaces from beginning text = mw.ustring.gsub(text,'[%s,]*$', '') --trim commas and spaces from end return text end

--Gets general location from more specific one for short descriptions --i.e if a location is specified to be "P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney, Australia", return "Sydney, Australia" --splits by commas and returns last two entries

function p.generalLoc (frame) return p._generalLoc (frame.args[1]) end

function p._generalLoc (loc) loc = p._prepareLoc(loc) local split = {} local num = 0 loc = loc..',' --comma at the end for convenient splitting with gmatch for k in mw.ustring.gmatch(loc,'([^,]*),') do --split by commas table.insert(split, k)		num = num + 1 end if num == 1 then --if only comma was the one at the end return the whole thing return split[1] else return split[num-1]..','..split[num] --return last two entries separated by commas end end

--validate type parameter function p.validateTyp (typ, args) args = args or {} local checkpatterns = args['check-patterns'] local invalidadd = args.invalidadd if checkpatterns then for k in mw.ustring.gmatch(checkpatterns..';','([^;]*);') do --split checkpatterns by ;, check if one of the patterns is in type if mw.ustring.match(mw.ustring.lower(typ),k) then return typ end end if invalidadd then --if invalid, add to make it valid return typ..' '..invalidadd end else return typ end end

function p._generateDesc (args) local cleanupLoc = require('Module:Settlement short description').cleanupLoc local typ = args[1] or "" typ = plaintext(args[1]) or "" if #typ == 0 then return end -- bail out if type is empty local sep = ((args.sep == 'no') and '') or args.sep or ' in ' --if args.sep set to no, nothing between typ and loc, if it has other value put that local loc = args[2] or "" local func if args['full-loc'] then func = '_prepareLoc' else func = '_generalLoc' end loc = p[func](loc) or "" loc = cleanupLoc(loc) or "" loc = mw.text.trim(loc) loc = loc and #loc > 0 and sep..loc or "" typ = p.validateTyp (typ, args) return typ and language:ucfirst(typ..loc) end

function p.generateDesc(frame) local args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs(frame) return p._generateDesc(args) or "" end

--Display short description using function p.shortdesc(text, frame) frame = frame or mw.getCurrentFrame return frame:expandTemplate{title = 'Short description', args = {text, 'noreplace'}} end

function p._main(args, frame) frame = frame or mw.getCurrentFrame local desc = p._generateDesc(args) return desc and p.shortdesc(desc, frame) end

--generates type in location function p.main(frame) local args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs (frame, {frameOnly = true}) return p._main(args, frame) or "" end

return p