User:Thnidu/anchor-alphas

Written to use on List of people from Pennsylvania.

Produce subsection header and anchor labels to paste into a long alphabetical list to divide it into alphabetical sections, e.g., A-F, G-M, N-P, Q-Z. For use in articles with very long lists that are already subdivided by category. The examples here are from the "Artists" sublist of List of people from Pennsylvania.

Example input:

Actors AB CD EG HK LM NR SZ

Output

A–B | C–D | E–G | H–K | L–M | N–R | S–Z

(clicking on any of the ranges above will take you to the header below)

A–B

C–D

E–G

H–K

L–M

N–R

S–Z

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Sun., July 19, 6:51pm UTC
# Produce subsection header and anchor labels to paste into a long alphabetical list to divide it
# into alphabetical sections, e.g., A-F, G-M, N-P, Q-Z.
# For use in articles with very long lists that are already subdivided by category.
# The examples here are from the [[List of people from Pennsylvania#Artists| "Artists" sublist]] of [[List of people from Pennsylvania]].
# Example input:
# Actors AB CD EG HK LM NR SZ
#
# Output
# 
# {{center|[[#ActorsAB|'''A–B''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsCD|'''C–D''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsEG|'''E–G''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsHK|'''H–K''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsLM|'''L–M''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsNR|'''N–R''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsSZ|'''S–Z''']]}}
# 
# ;{{anchor|ActorsAB}} A–B
# ;{{anchor|ActorsCD}} C–D
# ;{{anchor|ActorsEG}} E–G
# ;{{anchor|ActorsHK}} H–K
# ;{{anchor|ActorsLM}} L–M
# ;{{anchor|ActorsNR}} N–R
# ;{{anchor|ActorsSZ}} S–Z
#
# The code lines commented out with "##" will print the input class and letter groups first, then a
# separator line of equal signs.


$class = shift;
## printf("%s\n", $class);

while($letts = shift @ARGV) { 
    push @letts, $letts;
}

## foreach(@letts) {
##     print "$_\t";
## }
## print "\n";
## print "=============\n";

$out = "{{center|";
foreach(@letts) {
  ($l1, $l2) = split('', $_,2);
  $out .= sprintf "[[#%s%s%s|'''%s–%s''']] {{!}} ", $class, $l1, $l2, $l1, $l2;
}

$out =~ s/ {{!}} $/}}/;
print "\n", $out, "\n\n";

# sample output:
# |[[#ActorsAB|'''A–B''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsCD|'''C–D''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsEG|'''E–G''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsHK|'''H–K''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsLM|'''L–M''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsNR|'''N–R''']] {{!}} [[#ActorsSZ|'''S–Z''']]}}



foreach(@letts) {
  ($l1, $l2) = split('', $_,2);
  $out = sprintf ";{{anchor|%s%s%s}} %s–%s", $class, $l1, $l2, $l1, $l2;
  print $out, "\n";
}

# sample output:
# ;{{anchor|ActorsAB}} A–B

print "\n";