Module:Detect singular/sandbox explained

local p = local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgslocal yesNo = require('Module:Yesno')local getPlain = require('Module:Text').Text.getPlain

-- function to determine whether "sub" occurs in "s"local function plainFind(s, sub) return mw.ustring.find(s, sub, 1, true)end

-- function to count the number of times "pattern" (a regex) occurs in "s"local function countMatches(s, pattern) local _, count = mw.ustring.gsub(s, pattern, ) return countend

local singular = 1local likelyPlural = 2local plural = 3

-- Determine whether a string is singular or plural (i.e., it represents one-- item or many)-- Arguments:-- origArgs[1]: string to process-- origArgs.no_comma: if false, use commas to detect plural (default false)-- origArgs.parse_links: if false, treat wikilinks as opaque singular objects (default false)-- Returns:-- singular, likelyPlural, or plural (see constants above), or nil for completely unknownfunction p._main(origArgs) origArgs = type(origArgs)

'table' and origArgs or local args = -- canonicalize boolean arguments for key, default in pairs do if origArgs[key]

nil then args[key] = default else args[key] = yesNo(origArgs[key],default) end end local checkComma = not args.no_comma local checkAnd = not args.no_and local rewriteLinks = not args.parse_links local anyComma = args.any_comma local s = origArgs[1] -- the input string if not s then return nil -- empty input returns nil end s = tostring(s) s = mw.text.decode(s,true) --- replace HTML entities (to avoid spurious semicolons) if plainFind(s,'data-plural="0"') then -- magic data string to return true return singular end if plainFind(s,'data-plural="1"') then -- magic data string to return false return plural end -- count number of list items local numListItems = countMatches(s,'<%s*li') -- if exactly one, then singular, if more than one, then plural if numListItems

1 then return singular end if numListItems > 1 then return plural end -- if "list of" occurs inside of wlink, then it's plural if mw.ustring.find(s:lower, '%[%[[^%]]*list of[^%]]+%]%]') then return plural end -- fix for trailing br tags passed through s = mw.ustring.gsub(s, '<%s*br[^>]*>%s*(