Module:Plain text
Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Plain text/doc
--converts text with wikilinks to plain text, e.g "[[foo|gah]] is [[bar]]" to "gah is bar" --removes anything enclosed in tags and files, and italic and bold markup local p = {} function p.main(frame) local text = frame.args[1] text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '<.->.-<.->', '') --strip out flags, plus any other tags, e.g footnotes text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[File:.-%]%]', '') --strip out files text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[%[.-|', '') --strip out piped link text text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%[', '') --then strip out remaining [ and ] text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, '%]', '') text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, "'''''", "") --strip out italic and bold markup text = mw.ustring.gsub (text, "'''?", "") return text end return p