Template:String-handling templates

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String-handling templates (help page)

Substring (select chunk of string by its position)

Template:Tl	Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction.
Template:Tl	Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters.
Template:Tl	Return all but the last N characters of a string.
Template:Tl	Return the N-th character of a string.

Template:Tl	Return substring starting at N-th character to end of string.
Template:Tl	Return the last N characters of a string; or a given value if empty.
Template:Tl	Return substring of given length starting at N-th character.

Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type)

Template:Tl	Trim any leading or trailing whitespace
Template:Tl	Trim down to the beginning letters.
Template:Tl	Trim down to the beginning numbers.
Template:Tl	Trim any leading or trailing square brackets.
Template:Tl	Trim leading or trailing matching quotes.
Template:Tl	Trim up to six instances of specified <prefix>.

Template:Tl	Extract a short string from a long string.
Template:Tl	Trim down to the first space.
Template:Tl	Remove anything before the first space.
Template:Tl	Trim down from the last space.
Template:Tl	Remove anything after the last space.

Select/remove specific item from string

Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode); all or outer only.
Template:Tl	Removes wikicode (formatting and brackets)
Template:Tl	Trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation).
Template:Tl	Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation).

Template:Tl	Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any.
Template:Tl	Returns the 4-digit decade from a pagename (e.g. "1740" from "Foo 1740s bar"), if any.
Template:Tl	Returns any number from a pagename.
Template:Tl	Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename.

Insertion, replacement, and length

Template:Tl	Repeat character string a specified number of times.
Template:Tl	Returns the string, after replacing all occurrences of a specified string with another string.
Template:Tl	Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.
Template:Tl	Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9
Template:Tl	Displays wikitext as plain text.

Template:Tl	Returns a string's length.
Template:Tl	Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.
Template:Tl	Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.
Template:Tl	Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.

Analysis and searching

Template:Tl Template:Tl	Check if a string starts or ends with a given string.
Template:Tl, Template:Tl	Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
Template:Tl	Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string.

Template:Tl	Array item manipulation and retrieval.
Template:Tl	Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.
Template:Tl	Returns optional string when given string is not found
Template:Tl	Returns number when true, blank when not numeric.
Template:Tl	Returns the number of letters that begin a string.
Template:Tl	Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.

Modules and built-in functions
Module:String, Module:String2, Module:Ustring, Module:Text, wikitext handling: 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

Category:Modules that manipulate strings

Template documentation[create]

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