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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'.
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Templates based on the String Lua module]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Templates based on the String Lua module]]</noinclude>
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.
Lua 1.0 was designed in such a way that its object constructors, being then slightly different from the current light and flexible style, incorporated the data-description syntax of SOL (hence the name Lua: Sol meaning "Sun" in Portuguese, and Lua meaning "Moon").
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.
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
I mentioned the 8/4 input because current Lua source that happens to have tabs (because it was prepared somewhere else and was pasted into the edit window) should be using 8-column tabs (an example being Module:Convert/data), while someone writing a new module in the new CodeEditor will get 4-character column tabs if they press the Tab key. A ...
LuaTeX is a TeX-based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with a Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it was adopted by the TeX Live distribution as a successor to pdfTeX (itself an extension of ε-TeX, which generates PDFs).