Module:TableTools

--[[

--                              TableTools                                       -- --                                                                               -- -- This module includes a number of functions for dealing with Lua tables. -- -- It is a meta-module, meant to be called from other Lua modules, and should    -- -- not be called directly from #invoke. --

--]]

local p = {}

-- Define often-used variables and functions. local floor = math.floor local infinity = math.huge

--[[

-- isPositiveInteger -- -- This function returns true if the given number is a positive integer, and false -- if not. Although it doesn't operate on tables, it is included here as it is -- useful for determining whether a given table key is in the array part or the -- hash part of a table.

--]] function p.isPositiveInteger(num) if type(num) == 'number' and num >= 1 and floor(num) == num and num < infinity then return true else return false end end

--[[

-- getNumKeys -- -- This takes a table and returns an array containing the numbers of any numerical -- keys that have non-nil values, sorted in numerical order.

--]] function p.getNumKeys(t) local isPositiveInteger = p.isPositiveInteger local nums = {} for k, v in pairs(t) do		if isPositiveInteger(k) then nums[#nums + 1] = k		end end table.sort(nums) return nums end

--[[

-- getAffixNums -- -- This takes a table and returns an array containing the numbers of keys with the -- specified prefix and suffix. For example, for the table -- {a1 = 'foo', a3 = 'bar', a6 = 'baz'} and the prefix "a", getAffixNums will -- return {1, 3, 6}.

--]] function p.getAffixNums(t, prefix, suffix) prefix = prefix or '' suffix = suffix or '' local nums = {} for k, v in pairs(t) do		if type(k) == 'string' then local num = mw.ustring.match(k, '^' .. prefix .. '([1-9]%d*)' .. suffix .. '$') if num then nums[#nums + 1] = tonumber(num) end end end table.sort(nums) return nums end

--[[

-- compressSparseArray -- -- This takes an array with one or more nil values, and removes the nil values -- while preserving the order, so that the array can be safely traversed with -- ipairs.

--]] function p.compressSparseArray(t) local ret = {} local nums = p.getNumKeys(t) table.sort(nums) for _, num in ipairs(nums) do		ret[#ret + 1] = t[num] end return ret end

--[[

-- sparseIpairs -- -- This is an iterator for sparse arrays. It can be used like ipairs, but can -- handle nil values.

--]] function p.sparseIpairs(t) local nums = p.getNumKeys(t) local i = 0 local lim = #nums return function i = i + 1 if i <= lim then local key = nums[i] return key, t[key] end end end

return p