Template: String-handling templates vteString-handling templates (help page)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: modules that together contain most necessary string functions. Magic words: About {{padleft:|}}, {{lc:|}}, {{formatnum:|}} etc. ParserFunctions: About {{#titleparts:|}}, {{#expr:|}}, {{#ifeq:|}}, etc. Category:String manipulation templates Commons MediaWiki Meta-Wiki Wikidata Category:String manipulating modules Template documentation[create] [purge] Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. Discuss this page
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