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String-handling templates
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Substring (select chunk of string by its position)
{{
str sub new
}}
Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction.
{{
str left
}}
Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters.
{{
str crop
}}
Return all but the last N characters of a string.
{{
str index
}}
Return the N-th character of a string.
{{
str right
}}
Return substring starting at N-th character to end of string.
{{
str rightc
}}
Return the last N characters of a string; or a given value if empty.
{{
str sub old
}}
Return substring of given length starting at N-th character.
Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type)
{{
trim
}}
Trim any leading or trailing whitespace
{{
str letter/trim
}}
Trim down to the beginning letters.
{{
str number/trim
}}
Trim down to the beginning numbers.
{{
trim brackets
}}
Trim any leading or trailing square brackets.
{{
trim quotes
}}
Trim leading or trailing matching quotes.
{{
trim leading
}}
Trim up to six instances of specified <prefix>.
{{
string split
}}
Extract a short string from a long string.
{{
first word
}}
Trim down to the first space.
{{
remove first word
}}
Remove anything before the first space.
{{
last word
}}
Trim down from the last space.
{{
remove last word
}}
Remove anything after the last space.
Select/remove specific item from string
{{
delink
}}, {{
trim brackets
}}
Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode);
all
or
outer only
.
{{
Plain text
}}
Removes wikicode (formatting and brackets)
{{
PAGENAMEBASE
}}
Trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation).
{{
title disambig text
}}
Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation).
{{
WikiProjectbasename
}}
Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename.
{{
ship prefix
}}
Returns the length of a ship's name prefix, if listed (ship names).
{{
title year
}}
Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any.
{{
title decade
}}
Returns the 4-digit decade (e.g. "1740s") from a pagename, if any.
{{
title number
}}
Returns any number from a pagename.
Insertion, replacement and length
{{
loop
}}
Repeat character string a specified number of times.
{{
replace
}}
Returns the string, after replacing
all
occurrences of a specified string with another string.
{{
str rep
}}
Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.
{{
digits
}}
Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9
{{
Nowiki
}}
Displays wikitext as plain text.
{{
str len
}}
Returns a string's length.
{{
str ≥ len
}}
Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.
{{
str ≤ len
}}
Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.
{{
str ≠ len
}}
Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.
Analysis and searching
{{
str startswith
}}
{{
str endswith
}}
Check if a string starts or ends with a given string.
{{
str find
}}, {{
strfind short
}}
Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
{{
in string
}}
Returns optional string when given string is not found
{{
str count
}}
Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string.
{{
a or an
}}
Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.
{{
Array
}}
Array manipulation and retrieval.
{{
Font style
}}
Returns bold or italic if the input value has either formatting.
{{
Isnumeric
}}
Returns number when true, blank when not numeric.
{{
str letter
}}
Returns the number of letters that begin a string.
{{
str number
}}
Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.
Modules and built-in functions
Module:String
,
Module:String2
,
Module:Ustring
,
Module:Text
,
wikitext handling
: modules that together contain most necessary string functions.
Magic words
: About
{{padleft:|}}
,
{{lc:|}}
,
{{formatnum:|}}
etc.
ParserFunctions
: About
{{#titleparts:|}}, {{#expr:|}}, {{#ifeq:|}},
etc.
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