Template:String-handling templates

String-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).		{{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. {{WikiProjectbasename }} Removes "WikiProject" 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.

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