Module:British regnal year
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-- This module implements {{British regnal year}}. It converts a year in the Gregorian -- calendar to the equivalent English or British regnal year. local data = mw.loadData( 'Module:British regnal year/data' ) local p = {} function p.main( frame ) -- If we are being called from #invoke, then the year is the first positional -- argument. If not, it is the frame parameter. local inputYear if frame == mw.getCurrentFrame() then inputYear = frame:getParent().args[ 1 ] local frameArgsYear = frame.args[ 1 ] if frameArgsYear then inputYear = frameArgsYear end else inputYear = frame end -- Convert the input to an integer if possible. Return "N/A" if the input could -- not be converted, or if the converted input is too big or too small. if type( inputYear ) ~= 'number' then inputYear = tonumber( inputYear ) end if not inputYear then return "''N/A''" end local currentYear = tonumber( mw.language.getContentLanguage():formatDate( 'Y' ) ) if inputYear < 1066 or inputYear > currentYear then return "''N/A''" end -- Find the year in the data page and display the output. for _, t in ipairs( data ) do local dataYear = t.year if inputYear >= dataYear then -- Get data values from the data page. local startYear = t.startYear local currentRegnalYear = inputYear - dataYear + startYear local linkCurrent = t.linkCurrent local prevEndYear = t.prevEndYear local linkPrev = t.linkPrev local note = t.note if inputYear > dataYear then -- Years with the same monarch. return mw.ustring.format( '%d %s – %d %s%s', currentRegnalYear - 1, linkCurrent, currentRegnalYear, linkCurrent, note or '' ) elseif inputYear == dataYear and prevEndYear and linkPrev then -- Years with a different monarch. return mw.ustring.format( '%d %s – %d %s%s', prevEndYear, linkPrev, currentRegnalYear, linkCurrent, note or '' ) else -- This should only match the year 1066. return mw.ustring.format( '%d %s%s', currentRegnalYear, linkCurrent, note or '' ) end end end end return p