Template:String-handling templates: Difference between revisions
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String-handling templates (help page) |
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Substring (select chunk of string by its position) |
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| {{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. |
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Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type) |
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| {{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>. |
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Select/remove specific item from string |
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| | | {{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 from a pagename (e.g. "1740" from "Foo 1740s bar"), if any. | | {{Title number }} | Returns any number from a pagename. |
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Insertion, replacement and length |
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| {{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. |
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| {{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. |
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Analysis and searching |
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{{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. | | {{ReSwitch }} | Match one or multiple patterns with a variety of possible outputs. |
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| {{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. | | {{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. |
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Modules and built-in functions |
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