Module:Process ask query results 2

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Process ask query results 2/doc

local p = {}

-- this code was developed in plainlist_processing_1_b.lua

function p.processData(frame)
    local page_names_query_arg = frame.args["page_names_query"]
    local full_query_arg = frame.args["full_query"]
    local property_names_arg = frame.args["property_names_list"]

    
require("Module:String to array")

local page_names_array = string_to_array(page_names_query_arg, "#")

local property_names_array = string_to_array(property_names_arg, ",")

local source_page_positions = {}
-- build a table of the form {index: {page name, start pos, end pos}, ...} where "start pos" and "end pos" are the positions in the 
-- in the full query response string of the starting and ending characters of the page name
local i = 1
local j = 1
while i <= #full_query_arg do
    ch1, ch2 = string.find(full_query_arg, "__source_page_", i)
    if ch1 ~= nil then
      source_page_positions[j] = {ch1, ch2}
      j = j + 1
      i = ch2 + 1
    else
      i = #full_query_arg + 1
    end
end


-- print it out so that I check whether it was done correctly
local output_string_1 = "<ul>"
for i, v in ipairs(source_page_positions) do
    output_string_1 = output_string_1 .. "<li>" .. i .. ": {" .. v[1] .. ", " .. v[2] .. "}" .. "</li>"
end
output_string_1 = output_string_1 .. "</ul>"




    return "<ul><li>" .. type(page_names_array) .. "</li><li>" .. type(property_names_array) .. "</li><li>" .. property_names_arg .. "</li></ul>" .. output_string_1

 
    
    
end

return p