Difference between revisions of "Template:String-handling templates"

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* {{tl|Str mid}} – To return a substring, specified by its position and length.

* {{tl|Str left}} – To trim down to a specified number of characters, or duplicate the string to a specified number.

* {{tl|Str crop}} – To crop a specified number of characters off the end.

* {{tl|Chop head and tail}} – To crop a specified number of characters off the beginning and end.

* {{tl|Str right}} – To trim the first specified number of characters.

* {{tl|Str rightc}} – To return a number of characters from the end, returns a parameter if the string is empty.

* {{tl|Str rightmost}} – To trim down to the last specified number of characters.

* {{tl|Str sub old}} – To trim down to a specified number, starting at a given number from the left.

* {{tl|Str sub new}} – Select a substr based on starting and ending index.

* {{tl|Str index}} – Returns a given character from a string, but not accented letters.

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* {{tl|Trim}} – To trim any leading or trailing whitespace ({{tl|Strip whitespace}} does so too, but is less effective)

* {{tl|First word}} – To trim down to the first space.

* {{tl|Remove first word}} – To remove anything before the first space.

* {{tl|Str number/trim}} – To trim down to the beginning numbers.

| group3= Insert strings

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* {{tl|Loop}} – Repeat character string n times

* {{tl|Replace}} – Returns the string, after replacing ''all'' occurrences of a specified string with another string.

* {{tl|Strloc insert}} – Inserts a string at character location strloc, or appends if strloc<=0.

* {{tl|Strloc prefix}} – Extracts string prefix up to location strloc, or whole string if strloc<=0.

* {{tl|Str rep|Str rep}} – Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.

|group4= Length

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* {{tl|Str len}} – Returns a string's length.

* {{tl|iflenge}} – IF LENgth Greater than or Equal to.

* {{tl|Str ≥ len}} – To check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.

* {{tl|Str ≤ len}} – To check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.

* {{tl|Str ≠ len}} – To check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.

* {{tl|Str ≤ ≥ len}} – To check if a string is "shorter", "equal", or "longer" than a given length.

| group5=Analyse string

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* {{tl|Str endswith}} – To check if a string ends with a given string.

* {{tl|Str find}} – Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.

* {{tl|Strfind short}} – Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.

* {{tl|Str find0}} – Zero-based substring search.

* {{tl|Str sub find}} – Searches a substring in a string at the given offset.

* {{tl|ASCII code}} – Returns the ASCII value of a single character.

* {{tl|Str letter}} – Returns the number of letters that begin a string.

* {{tl|Str number}} – Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.

* {{tl|Str gtr str}} – Compares two strings for alphabetical order, and returns a value accordingly.

* {{tl|a or an}} – Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.

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* {{tl|WikiProjectbasename}} - Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename

* {{tl|Remove unranked}} - Removes the string "unranked_" from the left of a string (taxonomy).

* {{tl|Ship prefix}} – Returns the length of a ship name prefix, if listed (ship names).

* {{tl|Title without disambig}} – To trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string  (disambiguation).

* {{tl|Title disambig text}} – Returns text in parenthesis at the end of a string (disambiguation).

* {{tl|Unlink}} – Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode).

* {{tl|Remove file prefix}}—Removes "File:" or "Image:" from filenames.

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* [[Module:String]]

* [[mw:Help:Magic words]] – About <code><nowiki>{{padleft:|}}</nowiki></code>.

* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]] – About <code><nowiki>{{#titleparts:|}}, {{#expr:|}}, {{#ifeq:|}}, </nowiki></code> etc.

|group12=Feature requests

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