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-- Function allowing for consistent treatment of boolean-like wikitext input. | -- Function allowing for consistent treatment of boolean-like wikitext input. | ||
-- It works similarly to the template {{yesno}}. | -- It works similarly to the template {{yesno}}. | ||
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return function (val, default) | return function (val, default) | ||
| − | + | -- If your wiki uses non-ascii characters for any of "yes", "no", etc., you | |
| − | + | -- should replace "val:lower()" with "mw.ustring.lower(val)" in the | |
| − | + | -- following line. | |
| − | + | val = type(val) == 'string' and val:lower() or val | |
| − | + | if val == nil then | |
| − | + | return nil | |
| − | + | elseif val == true | |
| − | + | or val == 'yes' | |
| − | + | or val == 'y' | |
| − | + | or val == 'true' | |
| + | or val == 't' | ||
| + | or tonumber(val) == 1 | ||
| + | then | ||
| + | return true | ||
| + | elseif val == false | ||
| + | or val == 'no' | ||
| + | or val == 'n' | ||
| + | or val == 'false' | ||
| + | or val == 'f' | ||
| + | or tonumber(val) == 0 | ||
| + | then | ||
| + | return false | ||
| + | else | ||
| + | return default | ||
| + | end | ||
end | end | ||
Revision as of 03:43, 27 April 2015
Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Yesno/doc
-- Function allowing for consistent treatment of boolean-like wikitext input.
-- It works similarly to the template {{yesno}}.
return function (val, default)
-- If your wiki uses non-ascii characters for any of "yes", "no", etc., you
-- should replace "val:lower()" with "mw.ustring.lower(val)" in the
-- following line.
val = type(val) == 'string' and val:lower() or val
if val == nil then
return nil
elseif val == true
or val == 'yes'
or val == 'y'
or val == 'true'
or val == 't'
or tonumber(val) == 1
then
return true
elseif val == false
or val == 'no'
or val == 'n'
or val == 'false'
or val == 'f'
or tonumber(val) == 0
then
return false
else
return default
end
end
