Module:CountryData
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local p = {} function p.gettable(frame,country,params) --Returns the parameters of a country data template as a Lua table --If not a valid data template, return empty table if string.find(frame:preprocess("{{Country data "..country.."}}"),"^%{%{ *%{%{%{1") then --Params to be passed into data template params = params or {} --Transclude template without first parameter for string list of params local s = frame:expandTemplate({title="Country data "..country;args=params}) --Replace parameter delimiters with arbitrary control characters --to avoid clashes if param values contain equals/pipe signs s = string.gsub(s,"|([^|=]-)=","\1\1%1\2") s = string.gsub(s,"}}%s*$","\1") --Loop over string and add params to table local part = {} for par in string.gmatch(s,"\1[^\1\2]-\2[^\1\2]-\1") do local k = string.match(par,"\1%s*(.-)%s*\2") local v = string.match(par,"\2%s*(.-)%s*\1") part[k] = v end return part else return {} end end function p.getalias(frame) --Returns a single parameter value from a data template local part = p.gettable(frame,frame.args[1]) return tostring(part[frame.args[2]]) end function p.gettemplate(frame) --For testing, recreates the country data from the created Lua table --Get data table local data = p.gettable(frame,frame.args[1]) --Concatenate fields into a template-like string local out = "{{ {{{1}}}" for k,v in pairs(data) do out = out.."\n| "..k.." = "..v end return out.."\n}}" end return p