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-- Quick experiment with lua
-- Module for removing the extension from a file name (Should this or something like it be part of module:File?)
local p = {}
p.removeExtension = function(frame)
        local page = frame.args[1] or frame.args["file"] or frame.args["title"] or mw.title.getCurrentTitle().text
	local parts = mw.text.split( page , '.', true )
        local upTo = #parts - 1
        if (upTo) == 0 then
	        upTo = 1
        end
        return table.concat( parts, '.', 1, upTo )
end
-- I Probably shouldn't write this. This is a bad plan... I feel dirty...
-- Also probably unreliable, don't use it for anything important.
p.getYearFromInfo = function(frame)
       local pattern = 'fileinfotpl_date.*<time[^>]*datetime="([^-"]*)'
       local page = 'File:' .. (frame.args[1] or frame.args["file"] or frame.args["title"] or mw.title.getCurrentTitle().text)
       return string.match( frame:expandTemplate{ title = page, args = {}}, pattern )
end

return p