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local make_auto_subtabler = require("Module:auto-subtable")
local content = mw.title.new("Appendix:Ancient Greek endings"):getContent()
local endings = {}
-- Find entries for endings marked by the syntax "; ]".
-- Store them in a table.
for anchor in content:gmatch("\n; %]+)%]%]") do
if anchor:find("") then
for suffix in anchor:gmatch("%-+") do
endings = true
end
end
end
local shares_ending = make_auto_subtabler()
-- The actual purpose of this data module:
-- Check if each ending ends with the characters of any smaller endings, by
-- snipping off progressively larger pieces of the ending and comparing them to
-- all other endings.
-- If so, store the ending in an array indexed by the shorter ending.
-- For instance, -εσθαι ends with the characters of -αι and -σθαι.
for ending in pairs(endings) do
for i = 1, mw.ustring.len(ending) - 2 do -- Ignore the first two characters because of the hyphen.
local sub_ending = "-" .. mw.ustring.sub(ending, -i)
if endings then
table.insert(shares_ending, ending)
end
end
end
shares_ending:un_auto_subtable()
return { shares_ending = shares_ending }