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This function allows one to replace a target string or pattern within another string. To Lua programmers: this function works internally by calling mw.ustring.gsub. Usage: {{#invoke:String|replace|source_str|pattern_string|replace_string|replacement_count|plain_flag}} OR
The string-search functions in Lua script can run extremely fast, comparing millions of characters per second. For example, a search of a 40,000-character article text, for 99 separate words (passed as 99 parameters in a template), ran within one second of Lua CPU clock time.
Regular expressions (or regex) are a common and very versatile programming technique for manipulating strings. On Wikipedia you can use a limited version of regex called a Lua pattern to select and modify bits of text from a string. The pattern is a piece of code describing what you are looking for in the string.
This module is subject to page protection.It is a highly visible module in use by a very large number of pages, or is substituted very frequently. Because vandalism or mistakes would affect many pages, and even trivial editing might cause substantial load on the servers, it is protected from editing.
The captures can be accessed later in the search string or in the string.gsub replacement string as %1 to %9, and are returned by string.match as an expression list of results. The qualifiers ? - * + specify repetitions of a single character (not a longer string).? means 0 or 1 repetitions: a? matches "a" or "".
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This Lua module is used on approximately 4,830,000 pages, or roughly 8% of all pages. To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the module's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own module sandbox.
This can be done in either Lua or template syntax (using the string manipulation templates). Lua will probably be a little bit more work to implement, but would certainly be easier to read. For the record, what is "{{{1}}}" above, is that meant to be "IT\ICCU\MIL\0205279" in the example? Dragons flight 16:47, 28 June 2015 (UTC) Yes.