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Module:TableTools

6 bytes removed, 15:51, 23 May 2020

from sandbox: another slight code simplification and a couple comment fixes

local function cleanPattern(s)

-- Cleans a pattern so that the magic characters ()%.[]*+-?^$ are interpreted literally.

~~s =~~ return s:gsub('([%(%)%%%.%[%]%*%+%-%?%^%$])', '%%%1') ~~return s~~

end

--[[

-- Finds the length of an array, or of a quasi-array with keys such

-- as "data1", "data2", etc., using an ~~exponental~~ exponential search algorithm.

-- It is similar to the operator #, but may return

-- a different value when there are gaps in the array portion of the table.

function p.length(t, prefix)

-- requiring module inline so that [[Module:~~Exponental~~ Exponential search]]

-- which is only needed by this one function

-- doesn't get millions of transclusions

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