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Please see: ((#invoke:string |sub)).((str sub old|text |start |length )) = Substring of text starting at start and containing length characters. Zero-indexed: the first character is numbered 0, and so on, e.g. ((str sub old|20090624130510|8|2)) returns the 2 characters starting at the 9th, i.e. "13".
((str sub old|1234567|3|2)) —> 45
((str sub old| alphabet|0|5)) —> alpha
((str sub old| alphabet|5|999)) —> bet
((str sub old|alph abet|0|5)) —> alph
((str sub old| three words here |4|10)) —> e words h Any leading spaces are skipped, but internal spaces are counted exactly, yet compressed when displayed.
Template parameters
Parameter Description Type Status Text 1The substring to be trimmed.
String required Numeric position 2Numeric position of the starting character within the string
Number required Count 3Number of characters for the substring
Number required
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)
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.
Analysis and searching
(( Array )) Array item manipulation and retrieval. (( a or an )) Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel. (( in string )) Returns optional string when given string is not found (( Isnumeric )) Returns number when true, blank when not numeric. (( str letter )) Returns the number of letters that begin a string. (( str number )) Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.
Modules and built-in functions
