Module:Yesno

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This module is a helper module to be used by other modules; it may not be designed to be invoked directly. See Near-Reality:Lua/Helper modules for a full list and more information.

ModuleFunctionTypeUse
Yesno(arg)Any valueReads arg for yes/no and returns the appropriate boolean or nil
(arg1,arg2)Any value, Any valueReads arg1 for yes/no and returns the appropriate boolean; returns arg2 if arg1 was not an applicable value

-- Function allowing for consistent treatment of boolean-like wikitext input.
-- It works similarly to the template {{yesno}}.

return function (val, default)
	-- If your wiki uses non-ascii characters for any of "yes", "no", etc., you
	-- should replace "val:lower()" with "mw.ustring.lower(val)" in the
	-- following line.
	val = type(val) == 'string' and val:lower() or val
	if val == nil then
		return nil
	elseif val == true 
		or val == 'yes'
		or val == 'y'
		or val == 'true'
		or val == 't'
		or val == 'on'
		or tonumber(val) == 1
	then
		return true
	elseif val == false
		or val == 'no'
		or val == 'n'
		or val == 'false'
		or val == 'f'
		or val == 'off'
		or tonumber(val) == 0
	then
		return false
	else
		return default
	end
end