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Wikipedia does not have the "StringFunctions" series of parser functions (listed below), and is not going to get them (per phab:T8455). Instead, templates use Lua (via Module:String or otherwise), alongside existing parser functions. None of these functions will work, but they have alternatives: #len – use {{#invoke:string|len}}
<string>.partition(separator) returns the sub-string before the separator; the separator; then the sub-string after the separator. Description Splits the given string by the separator and returns the three substrings that together make the original.
Marshalling data between C and Lua functions is also done using the stack. To call a Lua function, arguments are pushed onto the stack, and then the lua_call is used to call the actual function. When writing a C function to be directly called from Lua, the arguments are read from the stack. Here is an example of calling a Lua function from C:
The Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) is an open-source software tool used to connect computer programs or libraries written in C or C++ with scripting languages such as Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl, and other language implementations like C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, D, OCaml, Octave, Scilab and Scheme.
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.
This module provides utilities for declaring classes in Lua code. It creates global variables, so must be called before require ( 'strict' ) if that is used. The above documentation is transcluded from Module:Lua class/doc .
Functions can return any kind of value — including a function. This is a powerful feature that can readily confuse the beginner. If you set a = mw. ustring. gmatch (text, "(.)"), the result assigned to a will be a function, not a string character!
Nested functions can be used for unstructured control flow, by using the return statement for general unstructured control flow.This can be used for finer-grained control than is possible with other built-in features of the language – for example, it can allow early termination of a for loop if break is not available, or early termination of a nested for loop if a multi-level break or ...