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| title = String-handling templates [[Help:Manipulating_strings|(help page)]]
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| 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.
}} }}


| abbr4 = IRL
| sect4 = Insertion, replacement, and length
| content4 =
{{Aligned table |style=margin: 0 auto 0; text-align: left;
| 
{{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.
}}
| 
{{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.
}} }}


| abbr5 = anlys/tech
| sect5 = Analysis and searching
| content5 =
{{Aligned table |style=margin: 0 auto 0; text-align: left;
| 
{{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.
}}
| 
{{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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|group6=Modules and built-in functions
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* [[: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:|}}</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>{{lc:|}}</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>{{formatnum:|}}</nowiki></code> etc.
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions|ParserFunctions]]: About <code><nowiki>{{#titleparts:|}}, {{#expr:|}}, {{#ifeq:|}}, </nowiki></code> etc.{{div col end}}

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* [[: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]]
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