User talk:Matroc

Federal Bank

Welcome

Hello, Matroc, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:28, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Getting started
Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Intuitive guide to Wikipedia
Finding your way around
Table of contents Department directory
Editing articles
How to develop an article Simplified Manual of Style

Getting help
Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page Article Wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
How you can help
Contributing to Wikipedia Community Portal Join a WikiProject Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility

Lua code snippets

For Loop a -z

local c = ""
for x = string.byte('a'), string.byte('z') do
    c = c .. string.char(x)                           -- 'a' to 'z
end

Length of a String

test = "This is a string"
length = #test
or
length = test:len()

Combine tables together

   newtable = {}
   t1 = {"Alabama", "New York"}
   t2 = {"New Hampshire", "Vermont"}
   for k,v in ipairs(t1) do table.insert(newtable, v) end
   for k,v in ipairs(t2) do table.insert(newtable, v) end
   -- newtable now has both t1 and t2 --- can do this for multiple tables

Trim white space left

string = string:match'^%s*(.*)'

Trim white space right

string = string:match'^(.*%S)'

Trim both left and right

string = string:match'^%s*(.*%S)'

Is a table

if (type(var) == "table") then do table work else do non-table work end

Pad to left of String

test = "Some String" char="." len=40
test =  test .. string.rep(char, len - #test)

Pad to right of String

test = "Some String" char ="." len = 40
test = string.rep(char, len - #test) .. test

Chop to length

test = "This is a test"
test = test:sub(1,5)

can pad left or right to insure size is fixed
may wish to trim spaces off right and left as well

Reverse a String

test = "This is a test"
test = test:reverse()

Str left

test = "This is a test"
test = test:sub(1,count)

Have to make decision as in case of count being greater than the length of a string or empty string or nil

Str right

test = "This is a test"
test = test:sub(#test - count + 1, test:len())
--or
test = test:reverse()
test = test:sub(1,count)
test = test:reverse()

Have to make decision as in case of count being greater than the length of a string or empty string or nil

Str lower

test = "Yes"
test = test:lower()

Str upper

test = "Yes"
test = test:upper()

ESCAPE LUA SPECIAL CHARACTERS

ESC = mw.ustring.gsub(SOMESTRING, '[%-%.%+%[%]%(%)%$%^%%%?%*]','%%%1')

Sandbox TEST modules created on en.wikipedia

These are some of the Lua Modules created in Sandbox for testing/learning

Get Wikidata id if article exists in Wikipedia

Battle of Hoke's Run Q1497885

| type=listing | lat=39.4700 | long=-77.7400 | lukup=Antietam National Battlefield and Cemetery | id= | title=Antietam National Battlefield and Cemetery | text=Antietam National Battlefield and Cemetery | image=Antietam Natl Cemetery.JPG | desc=Site of the Battle of Antietam Sharpsburg, a major Civil War battle and the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. Abraham Lincoln after which released the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebelling states free as a result of this battle.

| type=listing | lat=36.4872 | long=-87.8608 | lukup=Fort Donelson National Battlefield | id=Q5471081 | title=Fort Donelson National Battlefield | text=Fort Donelson National Battlefield | image=Fort Donelson river battery (1).jpg, Dover | xxx=Tennessee | desc=Site of a major Civil War battle in which Union forces secured control of the area, the first major successes for the Union in the war. This battle established the rapidly rising star of Ulysses S. Grant. (Unconditional Surrender Grant)

| type=listing | lat=39.8124 | long=-77.2357 | lukup=Gettysburg National Military Park | id=Q5554764 | title=Gettysburg National Military Park | text=Gettysburg National Military Park | image=Gettysburg5.JPG | xxx= Gettysburg | desc=Site of arguably the largest and most important battle in the Civil War. Today you can tour the battlefields, the military cemetery, and the site where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous "Gettysburg Address." There is a marker - known as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy" - where "Pickett's charge", a doomed infantry charge on a fortified Union position, ordered by Robert E. Lee and led by Pickett, ended and then retreated.

| type=listing | lat=39.3228 | long=-77.7297 | lukup=Harpers Ferry National Historical Park | id=Q5663505 | title=Harpers Ferry National Historical Park | text=Harpers Ferry National Historical Park | image=2010-09-02-Harpers-Ferry-From-Maryland-Heights-Panorama-Crop.jpg | xxx=Harpers Ferry | desc=Contains much of the historic town of Harpers Ferry, an important industrial center in the 19th century and site of John Brown's raid that helped trigger the Civil War.

| type=listing | lat=29.9425 | long=-89.9942 | lukup=Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve | id=Q3364383 | title=Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve | text=Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve | image=Bayou.jpg, Chalmette, Lafayette, visitor's center in French Quarter | xxx=New Orleans | desc=Preserves a set of historic sites related to the Cajun culture of the area and a Civil War battlefield, as well as a natural preserve of forests and swamps.

| type=listing | lat=33.9831 | long=-84.5781 | lukup=Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park | id=Q6389745 | title=Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park | text=Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park | image=Kennesaw mountain cannon01.jpg | xxx=Kennesaw | desc=Site of a major battle of General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign during the Civil War. A preserved battleground featuring several miles of Union and Confederate earthworks.

| type=listing | lat=44.254 | long=-73.972 | lukup=John Brown Farm State Historic Site | id=Q2487907 | title=John Brown Farm State Historic Site | text=John Brown Farm State Historic Site | desc=Located in Lake Placid, New York; is the home and grave of abolitionist John Brown, hanged by the state of Virginia for a 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. This historic house has guided tours and re-enactments.

| type=listing | lat=37.21295 | long=-77.400417 | lukup=Pamplin Park, National Museum of the Civil War Soldier | id= | title=Pamplin Park, National Museum of the Civil War Soldier | text=Pamplin Park, National Museum of the Civil War Soldier | desc=Located in Petersburg, Virginia commemorates the siege and fall of Petersburg which eventually led to the Lee's final surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.

| type=listing | lat=32.3439 | long=-90.8514 | lukup=Vicksburg National Military Park | id=Q12072131 | title=Vicksburg National Military Park | text=Vicksburg National Military Park | image=Vicksburg-illinois-memorial.jpg | xxx=Vicksburg | desc=Site of a major Civil War battle that was the culmination of the Union's Vicksburg Campaign, which gave the Union control over the Mississippi River and considered one of the turning points of the war.

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Matroc. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks Matroc, my objective was to get all points and shapes from osm which are tagged with federal bank qid ... checked with Yurik . asif now it is not supported -- naveenpf (talk) 05:30, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Matroc. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Protected Module Edit (Opinion?)

{{Roman|MMXVIII}} → 2018

Given your past editing of {{Roman}} I wonder if you could point me in the right direction to get some competent eyes on this and also what you might think of {{Roman}} converting both ways depending on input only.

Not sure of process for getting code (as opposed to encyclopedia content) reviewed; didn't even realize there was a [diff] web function until after posting a static diff onto talk page.

–ASiplas (talk) 11:17, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ASiplas - I don't think or remember if I edited the Roman Template - I think that perhaps the only person that I can think of to assist you would possibly be Mr. Stradivarius -- Best wishes! Matroc (talk) 00:35, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]