Module:Func

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local func = {}

function func.decodeHTML(itemName)
    itemName = itemName:gsub("'", "'")
    itemName = itemName:gsub("'", "'")
    itemName = itemName:gsub("&", "&")
    return itemName
end

function func.encodeName(itemName)
	local decoded = func.decodeHTML(itemName)
	local encodedItemName = decoded:gsub("'", "''")
	return encodedItemName
end

function func.removeEncoding(itemName)
	local decoded = func.decodeHTML(itemName)
	local removedEncodingName = decoded:gsub("'", "")
	return removedEncodingName
end

function func.escape(frame)
    local str = frame.args[1]
    str = str:gsub("!", "")  -- Remove exclamation marks
    str = str:gsub("'", "")  -- Remove apostrophes
    str = str:gsub("%.", "") -- Remove periods (dot)
    
    local exceptions = {
    ["of"] = true,
    ["the"] = true,
    ["by"] = true
	}
    
    -- Function to capitalize the first letter of each word except exceptions
    local function capitalizeFirstLetter(word)
        local lower_word = word:lower()
        if exceptions[lower_word] then
            return lower_word
        else
            return word:sub(1, 1):upper() .. word:sub(2):lower()
        end
    end

    -- Capitalize the first letter of each word except exceptions
    str = str:gsub("(%a[%w]*)", capitalizeFirstLetter)
    
    -- Always capitalize the first word in the string
    str = str:gsub("^%l", string.upper)

    return str
end

return func