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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}}.
 
 
return function (val, default)
 
return function (val, default)
-- If your wiki uses non-ascii characters for any of "yes", "no", etc., you
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    val = type(val) == 'string' and mw.ustring.lower(val) or val -- put in lower case
-- should replace "val:lower()" with "mw.ustring.lower(val)" in the
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    if val == nil then
-- following line.
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        return nil
val = type(val) == 'string' and val:lower() or val
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    elseif val == false or val == 'no' or val == 'n' or val == 'false' or tonumber(val) == 0 then
if val == nil then
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        return false
return nil
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    elseif val == true or val == 'yes' or val == 'y' or val == 'true' or tonumber(val) == 1 then
elseif val == true
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        return true
or val == 'yes'
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    else
or val == 'y'
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        return default
or val == 'true'
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    end
or tonumber(val) == 1
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then
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return true
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elseif val == false
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or val == 'no'
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or val == 'n'
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or val == 'false'
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or tonumber(val) == 0
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then
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return false
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else
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return default
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end
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end
 
end

Revision as of 16:20, 30 March 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)
    val = type(val) == 'string' and mw.ustring.lower(val) or val -- put in lower case
    if val == nil then
        return nil
    elseif val == false or val == 'no' or val == 'n' or val == 'false' or tonumber(val) == 0 then
        return false
    elseif val == true or val == 'yes' or val == 'y' or val == 'true' or tonumber(val) == 1 then
        return true
    else
        return default
    end
end