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| title = String-handling templates [[Help:Manipulating_strings|(help page)]]
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<!---------------------- Trimming ------------------------->
| abbr1 = sub
| sect1 = Substring (select chunk of string by its position)
| content1 =  {{Aligned table |fullwidth=on |style=text-align: left; |col1width=50%;
  | {{Aligned table |style=padding-right: 2em;
    |col1style=width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
    | {{tl|str sub new}} | Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction.
    | {{tl|str left}}      | Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters.
    | {{tl|str crop}}      | Return all but the last N characters of a string.
    | {{tl|str index}}     | Return the N-th character of a string.
    }}
  | {{Aligned table
    |col1style=width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
    | {{tl|str right}}     | Return substring starting at N-th character to end of string.
    | {{tl|str rightc}}    | Return the last N characters of a string; or a given value if empty.
    | {{tl|str sub old}}   | Return substring of given length starting at N-th character.
}} }}

| abbr2 = trim
| sect2 = Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type)
| content2 =
{{Aligned table |fullwidth=on |style=text-align: left; |col1width=50%;
    | {{Aligned table |style=padding-right: 2em;
       |col1style=width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
       | {{tl|trim}}                | Trim any leading or trailing whitespace
       | {{tl|str letter/trim}}     | Trim down to the beginning letters.
       | {{tl|str number/trim}}     | Trim down to the beginning numbers.
       | {{tl|trim brackets}}       | Trim any leading or trailing square brackets.
       | {{tl|trim quotes}}         | Trim leading or trailing matching quotes.
       | {{tl|trim leading}}        | Trim up to six instances of specified <prefix>.
      }}
    | {{Aligned table
       |col1style=width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
       | {{tl|string split}}        | Extract a short string from a long string.
       | {{tl|first word}}          | Trim down to the first space.
       | {{tl|remove first word}}   | Remove anything before the first space.
       | {{tl|last word}}           | Trim down from the last space.
       | {{tl|remove last word}}    | Remove anything after the last space.
}} }}

| abbr3 = specific
| group3 = Select/remove specific item from string
| content3 =
{{Aligned table |fullwidth=on |style=text-align:left; |col1width=50%;
    | {{Aligned table |style=padding-right: 2em;
       |col1style=width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
       | {{tl|delink}}, {{tl|trim brackets}} | Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode); ''all'' or ''outer only''.
       | {{tl|Plain text}}          | Removes wikicode (formatting and brackets)
       | {{tl|PAGENAMEBASE}}        | Trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation).
       | {{tl|title disambig text}} | Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation).
      }}
    | {{Aligned table
       |col1style=width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
       | {{tl|title year}}          | Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any.
       | {{tl|title decade}}        | Returns the 4-digit decade from a pagename (e.g. "1740" from "Foo 1740s bar"), if any.
       | {{tl|title number}}        | Returns any number from a pagename.
       | {{tl|WikiProjectbasename}} | Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename.
   }} }}

<!----------- Insertion, replacement, length -------------->
| abbr4 = IRL
| sect4 = Insertion, replacement and length
| content4 =
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  |  <!---(Insertion, replacement)--->
    {{Aligned table |style=padding-right: 2em;
     |col1style=text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
     | {{tl|loop}}          | Repeat character string a specified number of times.
     | {{tl|replace}}       | Returns the string, after replacing ''all'' occurrences of a specified string with another string.
     | {{tl|str rep}}       | Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.
     | {{tl|digits}}        | Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9
     | {{tl|Nowiki}}        | Displays wikitext as plain text.
    }}
  |  <!---(Length)--->
    {{Aligned table
     |col1style=text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
     | {{tl|str len}}       | Returns a string's length.
     | {{tl|str ≥ len}}     | Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.
     | {{tl|str ≤ len}}     | Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.
     | {{tl|str ≠ len}}     | Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.
 }} }}

<!----------------- Analysis, technical ------------------->
| abbr5 = anlys/tech
| sect5 = Analysis and searching
| content5 =
 {{Aligned table |style=margin: 0 auto 0; text-align: left;
  |  <!---(Analysis)--->
    {{Aligned table |style=padding-right: 2em;
     |col1style=text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
     | {{tl|str startswith}}<br>{{tl|str endswith}}  | Check if a string starts or ends with a given string.
     | {{tl|str find}}, {{tl|strfind short}} |style2.2=vertical-align:middle;| Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
     | {{tl|str count}}     | Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string.
    }}
  |  <!---(Analysis cont'd)--->
    {{Aligned table
     |col1style=text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;
     | {{tl|Array}}         | Array item manipulation and retrieval.
     | {{tl|a or an}}       | Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.
     | {{tl|in string}}     | Returns optional string when given string is not found
     | {{tl|Isnumeric}}     | Returns number when true, blank when not numeric.
     | {{tl|str letter}}    | Returns the number of letters that begin a string.
     | {{tl|str number}}    | Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.
 }} }}
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|state6=expanded
|group6=Modules and built-in functions
|list6={{div col|style=text-align:left}}
* [[:Module:String]], [[:Module:String2]], [[:Module:Ustring]], [[Module:Text]], [[:Template:Navbox wikitext-handling templates|wikitext handling]]: modules that together contain most necessary string functions.
* [[mw:Help:Magic words|Magic words]]: About <code><nowiki>{{padleft:&#124;}}</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>{{lc:&#124;}}</nowiki></code>,  <code><nowiki>{{formatnum:&#124;}}</nowiki></code> etc.
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions|ParserFunctions]]: About <code><nowiki>{{#titleparts:&#124;}}, {{#expr:&#124;}}, {{#ifeq:&#124;}}, </nowiki></code> etc.{{div col end}}
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| below =
* [[:Category:String manipulation templates]] 
** [[:c:Category:String manipulation templates|Commons]]
** [[:mw:Category:String manipulation templates|MediaWiki]]
** [[:m:Category:String manipulation templates|Meta-Wiki]]
** [[:d:Category:String manipulation templates|Wikidata]]
* [[:Category:Modules that manipulate strings]]
| tracking = no <!--(keep all these string templates (by /doc pages) out of the tracking category)-->

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