imported>Trappist the monk: create;

2018-12-02T23:05:51Z

create;

New page

--[[--------------------------< C O U N T _ I T E M S >--------------------------------------------------------

experimental code that count the number of newline-immediately-followed-by-splat unordered-list wiki markup (this
because * must be at the left margin – won't count a * that is the first character at the top of a page)

{{#invoke:Sandbox/trappist the monk/count items|count_items}}

]]

local function count_items ()
local content = mw.title.new ('Wikipedia:Typo_Team/Members'):getContent(); -- read the unparsed page source
if not content then
return '<span style="font-size:100%;" class="error">error: failed to read: Wikipedia:Typo_Team/Members</span>';
end

local count;
content, count = content:gsub ('[\r\n]%*', '%1'); -- count unordered list markup
return count; -- and done
end

--[[--------------------------< E X P O R T E D _ F U N C T I O N S >------------------------------------------
]]

return {count_items = count_items};

Module:Sandbox/trappist the monk/count items - Revision history

imported>Trappist the monk: create;