Module:Suppress categories
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-- For attribution: [[:en:Module:Suppress categories]]
-- This is a simple module to strip categories from wikitext. It does
-- not support nested links or magic words like __TOC__, etc. Even so,
-- it should still handle most categories.
local p = {}
-- Detects if a category link is valid or not. If it is valid,
-- the function returns the blank string. If not, the input
-- is returned with no changes.
local function processCategory( all, submatch )
local beforePipe = mw.ustring.match(submatch, '^(.-)[%s_]*|[%s_]*.-$')
beforePipe = beforePipe or submatch
if mw.ustring.match(beforePipe, '[%[%]<>{}%c\n]') then
return all
else
return ''
end
end
-- Preprocess the content if we aren't being called from #invoke,
-- and pass it to gsub to remove valid category links.
local function suppress(content, isPreprocessed)
if not isPreprocessed then
content = mw.getCurrentFrame():preprocess(content)
end
content = mw.ustring.gsub(
content,
'(%[%[[%s_]*[cC][aA][tT][eE][gG][oO][rR][yY][%s_]*:[%s_]*(.-)[%s_]*%]%])',
processCategory
)
return content
end
-- Get the content to suppress categories from, and find
-- whether the content has already been preprocessed. (If the
-- module is called from #invoke, it has been preprocessed already.)
function p.main(frame)
local content, isPreprocessed
if frame == mw.getCurrentFrame() then
content = frame:getParent().args[1]
if frame.args[1] then
content = frame.args[1]
end
isPreprocessed = true
else
content = frame
isPreprocessed = false
end
return suppress(content, isPreprocessed)
end
return p