Documentation for this module may be created at Module:In5/doc
-- This module implements {{in5}}.
local p = {}
function p.in5(frame)
local indent = frame.args[1]
-- Trim whitespace and convert to number. Default to 5 if not present,
-- as per the template title.
indent = tonumber( mw.text.trim(indent) ) or 5
-- Round down to nearest integer. Decimal values produce funky results
-- from the original template, but there's no need for us to replicate that.
indent = math.floor( indent )
-- Don't output anything for zero or less. Again, there was some funky output
-- here for negatives, but now we're in Lua we should use sane defaults.
if indent <= 0 then
return
end
local base = ' '
local modulo = ' '
--[[
Indent values and the corresponding values for base and modulo:
indent base modulo
1 0 1
2 0 2
3 1 1
4 1 2
5 2 1
6 2 2
7 3 1
8 3 2
9 4 1
10 4 2
]]
local baseNum = math.floor( (indent - 1) / 2 )
local modNum = math.fmod( indent - 1 , 2 ) + 1
return mw.ustring.rep( base, baseNum) .. mw.ustring.rep( modulo, modNum )
end
return p