Module:Type in location

local p = {} local plaintext = require("Module:Plain text")._main

--Cleanup/format location for use in short descriptions function p.prepareLoc (frame) return p._prepareLoc (frame.args[1]) end

function p._prepareLoc (text) text = plaintext(text) text = text..',' --comma at the end makes things convenient text = text:gsub('%b', ', ') --remove things in brackets as etxtraneous information :gsub('[^%s,]*%d[^%s,]*', '') --remove things with digits as generally being unecessary postal codes/road numbers etc :gsub('(,%s-),', '%1') --fix possible blank seperated commas from previous cleanup :gsub('%s%s', ' ') --fix possible extra spaces from previous cleanup :gsub('^[%s,]*', '') --trim commas and spaces from beginning :gsub('[%s,]*$', '') --trim commas and spaces from end return text end

--Gets general location from more specific one for short descriptions --i.e if a location is specified to be "P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney, Australia", return "Sydney, Australia" --splits by commas and returns last two entries

function p.generalLoc (frame) return p._generalLoc (frame.args[1]) end

function p._generalLoc (loc) loc = p._prepareLoc(loc) split = {} num = 0 loc = loc..',' --comma at the end for convenient splitting with gmatch for k in loc:gmatch('([^,]*),') do --split by commmas table.insert(split, k)		num = num + 1 end if num == 1 then --if only comma was the one at the end return the whole thing return split[1] else return split[num-1]..','..split[num] --return last two entries seperated by commas end end

--validate type parameter function p.validateTyp (typ, args) checkpatterns = args['check-patterns'] invalidadd = args.invalidadd if checkpatterns then for k in (checkpatterns..';'):gmatch('([^;]*);') do --split checkpatterns by ;, check if one of the patterns is in type if typ:match(k) then return typ end end if invalidadd then --if invalid, add to make it valid return typ..' '..invalidadd end else return typ end end

--generates type in location function p.main(frame) args = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs (frame, {frameOnly = true}) return p._main(args, frame) end

function p._main (args, frame) typ = args[1] if typ then typ = plaintext(args[1]) end if not typ then return end --check after plaintexting if typ exists sep = ((args.sep == 'no') and '') or args.sep or ' in ' --if args.sep set to no, nothing between type and loc, if it has other value put that loc = args[2] if args['full-loc'] then func = '_prepareLoc' else func = '_generalLoc' end loc = loc and (sep..p[func](args[2])) or '' typ = p.validateTyp (typ, args) if typ then return frame:expandTemplate {title = 'Short description', args = {typ..loc, 'noreplace'}} end end

return p