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-- This module is intended to replace the functionality of Template:Formatnum and related templates. local p = {} function p. main (frame) local args = frame: getParent (). args local prec = args. prec or '' local sep = args. sep or '' local number = args [1] or args. number or '' local lang = args [2] or args. lang or ''-- validate the language parameter within MediaWiki's caller frame if ...
This Lua module is used on approximately 23,000 pages and changes may be widely ... (string or nil): the number to convert.-- Can be an arbitrarily large ...
n - (required) the number to be converted, as a string. It may be a number instead, if the input base is 10. base - (required) the base to which the number should be converted. May be between 2 and 36, inclusive. from - the base of the input. Defaults to 10 (or 16 if the input has a leading '0x').
Lua implements a small set of advanced features such as first-class functions, garbage collection, closures, proper tail calls, coercion (automatic conversion between string and number values at run time), coroutines (cooperative multitasking) and dynamic module loading.
A helper function that can be called from other Lua modules, but not from #invoke. This takes a string or a number value as input, and if the value can be converted to a number, cleanNumber returns the number and the number string. If the value cannot be converted to a number, cleanNumber returns nil, nil.
-- That module would be transcluded in only a small number of pages, so there should be -- little server overhead from making changes, and changes should propagate quickly. local extra_module -- name of module with extra units local extra_units -- nil or table of extra units from extra_module -- Some options in the invoking template can set ...
The string-search functions in Lua script can run extremely fast, comparing millions of characters per second. For example, a search of a 40,000-character article text, for 99 separate words (passed as 99 parameters in a template), ran within one second of Lua CPU clock time.
The English Wikipedia has several templates and Lua modules which can format or manipulate strings.In this context a "string" is any piece of text forming part of a page. This help page covers a few useful techniques; look in the navbox below for the full catalogue of templa