Module:Plain

Turns wikitext into plain text, removing link markup, bold and italic marks, and HTML tags. Used by the infoboxes to build automatic short descriptions, so a homeworld written as [[Halcyon#Nereid|Nereid]] becomes just "Nereid".

{{#invoke:Plain|text|some [[linked]] text}} gives "some linked text".

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-- Turns wikitext into plain text: [[Page|label]] -> label, [[Page]] -> Page,
-- and removes bold/italic marks and HTML tags.
-- Used by the infoboxes to build automatic short descriptions.
-- Usage: {{#invoke:Plain|text|some [[linked]] text}}
local p = {}

function p.text( frame )
	local s = frame.args[ 1 ] or ''
	s = s:gsub( '%[%[[^%]|]*|([^%]]*)%]%]', '%1' )
	s = s:gsub( '%[%[([^%]]*)%]%]', '%1' )
	s = s:gsub( "'''?", '' )
	s = s:gsub( '<[^>]->', '' )
	return mw.text.trim( s )
end

return p