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The Category:Lua-based templates is an index of templates which #invoke modules written in Lua script, using the Scribunto interface. The pages listed in this category are templates . This page is part of Wikipedia's administration and not part of the encyclopedia.
Scribunto Lua reference manual; Programming in Lua; Introduction to Lua patterns; About regex. Lua "patterns" are based on Regex (Patterns are a reduced set of regex). Help:Lua metamodules: Lua in Wikipedia has several meta-modules available that can make core functions easily available.
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This template is used to indicate that a template uses one or more Lua modules (pages in the Module: namespace). It is placed at the top of the template's /doc page. It automatically adds a floating right notification box, and it adds the template to Category:Lua-based templates or to one of its subcategories.
Lua patterns are used to define, find and handle a pattern in a string. It can do the common search and replace action in a text, but it has more options that doing plain text only. For example, in one go it can change the errors 'New yorker', 'New-Yorker', and 'NewYorker' into 'New Yorker'.
This Lua module is used on approximately 10,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the module's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own module sandbox . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
Help:Lua for beginners; Help:Lua debugging – about debugging Lua modules; Wikipedia:Lua style guide – standards to improve the readability of code through consistency; Module:Sandbox provides a pseudo-namespace for experimenting with Lua modules
This module provides a framework for making templates which produce a template test case.While test cases can be made manually, using Lua-based templates such as the ones provided by this module has the advantage that the template arguments only need to be input once, thus reducing the effort involved in making test cases and reducing the possibility of errors in the input.