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This module provides a consistent interface for processing boolean or boolean-style string input.

While Lua allows the <code>true</code> and <code>false</code> boolean values, wikicode templates can only express boolean values through strings such as "1", "0", "yes", "no", etc.

If it is passed input that it does not recognise as boolean or <code>nil</code>, it is possible to specify a default value to return.

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yesno(value, default)

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<code>value</code> is the value to be tested.

Boolean input or boolean-style input (see below) always evaluates to either <code>true</code> or <code>false</code>, and <code>nil</code> always evaluates to <code>nil</code>.

Other values evaluate to <code>default</code>.

First, load the module. Note that it can only be loaded from other Lua modules, not from normal wiki pages.

For normal wiki pages you can use {{tlx|yesno}} instead.

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local yesno = require('Module:Yesno')

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Some input values always return <code>true</code>, and some always return <code>false</code>.

<code>nil</code> values always return <code>nil</code>.

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-- These always return true:

yesno(true)

-- These always return false:

yesno('no')

yesno(false)

-- A nil value always returns nil:

yesno(nil)

yesno('tRuE')

-- These always return false:

yesno('No')

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You can specify a default value if <code>yesno</code> receives input other than that listed above.

If you don't supply a default, the module will return <code>nil</code> for these inputs.

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-- These return nil:

yesno(function() return 'This is a function.' end)

-- These return true:

yesno('foo', true)

yesno(function() return 'This is a function.' end, true)

-- These return "bar":

yesno('foo', 'bar')

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Although the blank string usually evaluates to <code>false</code> in wikitext, it evaluates to <code>true</code> in Lua.

This module prefers the Lua behaviour over the wikitext behaviour.

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