Module:Sandbox/RexxS/Getdateformat

--[[

Test module to look at performance of extracting the date format from

one of the {{Use dmy}} style maintenance templates.

Based entirely on Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration lines 438-468

--]]

p = {}

local df_template_patterns = {

"{{ *[Uu]se (dmy)",

"{{ *[Uu]se *(mdy)",

"{{ *[Uu]se *([Dd][Mm][Yy])",

"{{ *[Uu]se *([Mm][Dd][Yy])",

"{{ *([Dd][Mm][Yy])",

"{{ *([Mm][Dd][Yy])"

}

local function get_date_format()

local pagecontent = mw.title.getCurrentTitle():getContent() or '';

for idx, pattern in ipairs (df_template_patterns) do

local first, last, match = pagecontent:find(pattern);

if match then return match:lower() end

end

end

function p.getFormat(frame)

return get_date_format()

end

function p.null(frame)

return

end

return p