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Escapes a string to make it suitable as a [[mw:LUAREF#Patterns|Lua Scribunto regular expression]]. <br />
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The full set of metacharacters needing escaping in patterns is: {{kbd|().%+-*?[^$}}; for now, only hyphen is escaped.{{efn|Which means this template fails for {{t|Welcome v2.0/doc}}, currently the only template with {{t|subst only}} that has a dot in the title.}}<br />
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== Usage ==<br />
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{{tlc|Lua escape|''string''}}<br />
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== Parameters ==<br />
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There is one required positional parameter:<br />
: {{para|1}} – the string to be escaped<br />
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== Examples ==<br />
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* {{tlg|Lua escape|uw-vandalism4|code=y|_show_result=y}}<br />
* {{tlg|Lua escape|Template:Please see|code=y|_show_result=y}}<br />
* {{tlg|Lua escape|Template:Uw-c&pmove|code=y|_show_result=y}}<br />
* {{tlg|Lua escape|Template:A&E original programming|code=y|_show_result=y}}<br />
* {{tlg|Lua escape|Template:D&D-stub|code=y|_show_result=y}}<br />
* {{tlg|Lua escape|Template:Welcome v2.0|code=y|_show_result=y}} &nbsp; &nbsp; <small>''(fails to escape the dot)''</small><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Template:Template usage#Metacharacters]]<br />
* [[mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual#Patterns]]<br />
* [[mw:Extension:ReplaceSet]] – what we really need, but don't have<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
<includeonly>{{Sandbox other||<br />
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[[Category:String manipulation templates]]<br />
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