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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. |
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{{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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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 (e.g. "1740s") from a pagename, 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. |
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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. |
{{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. |
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Modules and built-in functions
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