Module:Spores

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Spores/doc

-- provides functions to automatically retrieve the list of Spores by extracting
-- wikilinks from the English Spores overview page at [[:Spores]], as well as
-- convenience functions for formatting the list of Spores

local m = {}

function m.getEnglishSporeNames() 
	sporesPageTitle = mw.title.new("Spores") -- the English version of the Spores overview page
	local englishSporeNames = {}
	for sporeWikilink in mw.ustring.gmatch(sporesPageTitle:getContent(), "%[%[([^|%]]*Spore)%]%]") do -- the title of the target page is the ‘captured’ (Lua regex special characters “()”); because the regex contains a capture, gmatch() returns an iterator over the matches to the capture, not the full regex
		table.insert(englishSporeNames, sporeWikilink)
	end
	return englishSporeNames
end

function m.getWikiListOfEnglishSporeNames()
	local wt = ""
	local englishSporeNames = m.getEnglishSporeNames()
	for i, sporeName in ipairs(englishSporeNames) do
		wt = wt .. "\n* " .. sporeName
	end
	if wt == "" then
		wt = "''no Spores found''"
	else
		wt = wt .. "\n"
	end
	return wt
end

return m