Module:Sort

Documentation for this module may be created at Module:Sort/doc

local p = {}

function p.parse(frame)

    local input = frame.args[1] or ""
    local pre = ""
    local post = ""
    if frame.args['wrap'] then
        pre = "{{L|" .. frame.args['wrap'] .. "|"
        post = "}}"
    end
    if frame.args['cat'] and frame.args['name'] and frame.args['ns'] then
        pre = "{{Cat|name=" .. frame.args['name'] .. "|" .. frame.args['ns'] .. "|"
        post = "}}"
    end

    local items = {}
    for item in string.gmatch(input, "([^,]+)") do
        local trimmed_item = item:match("^%s*(.-)%s*$") -- Trim whitespace
        table.insert(items, pre .. trimmed_item .. post)
    end

    table.sort(items)
    return frame:preprocess(table.concat(items, ", "))
end

return p