Module:Year

Beta

This module is rated as beta, and is ready for widespread use. It is still new and should be used with some caution to ensure the results are as expected.

The module “Year” contains 1 available call that extracts the first-mentioned year (assuming it is between 1000 and 9999) from some text.

Usage

{{#invoke:Year|extract|…}}

Parameters

The only parameter is the text to extract the year from.

Example

Module talk:Year/testcases

local p = {}
function p.extract(frame)
    s = frame.args[1]
    year = "%d%d%d%d"
    return string.sub(s, string.find(s, year))
end
return p

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