Module:Year

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function ProcessYear(RawYear)
    -- Shared interal subroutine to process and read input
    --[[ local n -- for section in string (1-5) 

    need to check if the first character of RawYear is numeric and, if so, set initial variables accordingly

    For i = 1,string.len(RawYear) do -- iterate through the unprocessed input to split it into up to five sections
    end

    ]]

    return 'Foo' -- temporary command to test module
end

local year = {}
--[[ Module to handle the year parameter within the Author and Main namespaces.
This module will be passed a string, derived from the year parameter of a header template,
it will analyse the data and then output the correct visible and invisible (ie. categories) values.
]]

-- START TEMPORARY TEST FUNCTIONS

function year.MakeNumeric(str)
   return tonumber(str)
end

function year.IsNumber(str)
    local n = tonumber(str)
    if n == nil then
        return false
    else
        return true
    end
end

function year.GetLength(str)
    local len = mw.ustring.len(str) or ''
    return len
end

-- END TEMPORARY TEST FUNCTIONS

function year.AuthorBirth(frame)
    -- Entry point function for all author birth years (or equivalent strings)
    local YearIn = frame.args[1] or ""
    if YearIn == nil then -- if there is no input string..
      return nil -- ..return nothing
    elseif tonumber(YearIn) then -- if the input is a number..
        return tonumber(YearIn) -- ..then return the input without processing
    else
        return ProcessYear(YearIn) .. ' births]]' -- in all other cases, process the input via the subroutine and append final part of category
    end
end

function year.AuthorDeath(YearIn)
    -- Entry point function for all author death years (or equivalent strings)

    if tonumber(YearIn) ~= nil then -- if the input is a number..
        return YearIn -- ..then return the input without processing
    else
        return 'Bar' -- temporary command to test module
    end

end

function year.Work(YearIn)
    -- Entry point function for all work publication years (or equivalent strings)
    return 'Baz' -- temporary command to test module
end

return year