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Module:Sandbox
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"Hello world"
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See
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Wiktionary:Lua
on English Wiktionary: contains notes on efficiency and on dealing with Unicode and UTF-8
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Help:Lua for beginners
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– standards to improve the readability of code through consistency
"What do converted templates look like?" (slideshow)
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Wikipedia:Guide to Scribbling
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- It allows to collect and view the values of one or several variables and/or customized labels of several points of a lua program.
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– module to do some simple probing of timing issues, mostly to spot and fix load problems
Patterns
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mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Patterns
mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Ustring_patterns
PatternsTutorial
REGEX (as applied by
WP:AWB
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WP:REGEX
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Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Sandbox
- allows you to work on a set of files within a sandbox prefix.
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