Template:String-handling templates: Difference between revisions

| abbr1 = sub

| sect1 = Substring (select chunk of string by its position)

     | {{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.

     }}

   | {{Aligned table

     | {{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.

| sect2 = Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type)

| content2 =

       | {{tl|trim}}                | Trim any leading or trailing whitespace

       | {{tl|str letter/trim}}    | Trim down to the beginning letters.

       }}

     | {{Aligned table

       | {{tl|string split}}        | Extract a short string from a long string.

       | {{tl|first word}}          | Trim down to the first space.

| content3 =

{{Aligned table |fullwidth=on |style=text-align:left; |col1width=50%;

       | {{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

       | {{tl|title year}}          | Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any.

       | {{tl|title number}}        | Returns any number from a pagename.

   }} }}

| sect4 = Insertion, replacement and length

| content4 =

   |  <!---(Insertion, replacement)--->

     | {{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.

   |  <!---(Length)--->

     {{Aligned table

     | {{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.

| sect5 = Analysis and searching

| content5 =

   |  <!---(Analysis)--->

     | {{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

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

     | {{tl|Isnumeric}}    | Returns number when true, blank when not numeric.

     | {{tl|str letter}}    | Returns the number of letters that begin a string.

|group6=Modules and built-in functions

|list6={{div col|style=text-align:left}}

* [[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}}

** [[:m:Category:String manipulation templates|Meta-Wiki]]

** [[:d:Category:String manipulation templates|Wikidata]]

| tracking = no <!--(keep all these string templates (by /doc pages) out of the tracking category)-->

}}<noinclude>{{documentation}}</noinclude>