Module:Separated entries/doc

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This Lua module is used in system messages, and on approximately 2,480,000 pages, or roughly 144860% of all pages.
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Usage

Module:Separated entries and {{Separated entries}} serve as a template front-end to mw.text.listToText. They take any number of positional parameters and piece them together with |separator=. |conjunction= can be optionally defined if a different separator is desired between the last and second last items. The starting positional parameter can be specified using |start=. Leading and trailing whitespace is stripped. To add deliberate leading and trailing whitespace, use the HTML entity   for a space and 
 for a "newline". Separated entries does not raise any errors by design.

For more complex cases – such as selecting the parameters to list, or preprocessing them, or omitting the last parameters – {{#invoke:params|list_values}} is available. The following two examples with “ + ” as delimiter and “ ... ” as conjunction produce a similar result:

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline></syntaxhighlight>
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline></syntaxhighlight>

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