Module:ISO 639 name/ISO 639-5/make explained

require('strict');

--ISO_5_name_extract|file-date=2013-02-11}}

reads a local copy of data from the table at https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-5/id.php, extractsthe ISO 639-5 codes and their associated language names

useful lines in the source table have the form: \t\t\t<639-2>\t\t\nwhere: is the 639-5 language code is the English name is the French name (not used here) <639-2> is language group or remainder group or blank (not used here) (not used here) (not used here)

for the file date use the date listed at the bottom of the source page in yyyymmdd numeric format without hyphens or spaces

local function ISO_5_name_extract (frame) local page = mw.title.getCurrentTitle; -- get a page object for this page local content = page:getContent; -- get unparsed content local content_table = ; -- table of text lines from source local out_table = ; -- output table local code, name;

local file_date = 'File-Date: ' .. frame.args["file-date"]; -- set the file date line from |file-date= (from the bottom of the source page)

content_table = mw.text.split (content, '[\r\n]'); -- make a table of text lines for _, line in ipairs (content_table) do -- for each line code, name = line:match ('^(%l%l%l)\t([%a %-,%(%)\226\128\145]+)\t'); -- \226\128\145 is non-breaking hyphen U+2011 (E2 80 91) if code then name = name:gsub ('\226\128\145', '-'); -- replace non-breaking hyphens with hyphen-minus table.insert (out_table, table.concat ) end end

table.sort (out_table); return "

-- " .. file_date .. "<br />return {<br />&#9;" .. table.concat (out_table, ',<br />&#9;') .. "<br />&#9;}<br />" .. "

";end

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return ;