Module:PageList

Creates a list of links to articles. Used in {{Split}} and {{Merge}}.

---

local getArgs = require("Module:Arguments").getArgs
local p = {}

function p.pagelist(frame)
	local pages = getArgs(frame)
	
	local total = 0
	for k,v in pairs(pages) do
		if type(k) == "number" then
			total = total + 1
		end
	end
	
	local listNamespace = ""
	if pages["space"] then
		listNamespace = pages["space"]
	end
	
	local function makeLink(page)
		if listNamespace == "" then
			return "[[" .. page .. "]]"
		elseif listNamespace == "Template" then
			return "{{[[:" .. listNamespace .. ":" .. page .. "|" .. page .. "]]}}"
		else
			return "[[:" .. listNamespace .. ":" .. page .. "]]"
		end
	end
	local output = ""
	if total == 1 then
		output = makeLink(pages[1],pageNamespace)
	elseif total == 2 then
		output = string.format("%s and %s", makeLink(pages[1]), makeLink(pages[2]))
	else
		i = 1
		output = ""
		repeat
			output = string.format("%s%s, ", output, makeLink(pages[i]))
			i = i + 1
		until i == total
		output = string.format("%sand %s", output, makeLink(pages[i]))
	end
	return output
end

return p