Module:Template input utils: Difference between revisions

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 -- - Numbered <anything> to table extract args and places them into a table.
--- Normalize params to snake case; anything close enough to snake case is
+-- Normalize params to snake case (may change to a different form later);
--- converted to snake case:
+-- anything close enough to snake case is converted to snake case:
--- - PascalCase -> pascal_case
+-- TRAIN_CASE, KEBEB-CASE, no dashes (OK!)
--- - camelCase -> camel_case
+-- PascalCase, camelCase (will not convert properly)
--- - ALL_CAPS -> all_caps
+-- Function work-in-progress
--- - TRAIN-CASE -> train_case
--- - kebab-case -> kebab_case
--- - Whatever-This-Case-Is -> whatever_this_case_is
--- - lowercase, UPPERCASE -> cannot be converted properly (lowercase, uppercase)
 function p.normalize_params(args)
+	-- Local function for normalizing strings
+	-- Spaces and dashes turn into underscores
+	-- and all capital letters become lowercase
+	local function normalize(input_string)
+		local cleaned_string = string.gsub(string.lower(input_string), "[%-%s]", "_")
+	end
 end