Template:String-handling templates

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 * above=As of February 2013, these templates are being optimised using Lua modules.
 * group1 = Trim by counting
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 * Str mid – To return a substring, specified by its position and length.
 * Trunc – To trim down to a specified number of characters.
 * Str left – To trim down to a specified number of characters, or duplicate the string to a specified number.
 * Str crop – To crop a specified number of characters off the end.
 * Chop head and tail – To crop a specified number of characters off the beginning and end.
 * Str right – To trim the first specified number of characters.
 * Str rightc – To return a number of characters from the end, returns a parameter if the string is empty.
 * Str rightmost – To trim down to the last specified number of characters.
 * Str sub old – To trim down to a specified number, starting at a given number from the left.
 * Str sub new – Select a substr based on starting and ending index.
 * Str index – Returns a given character from a string, but not accented letters.


 * group2=Trim by checking
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 * Trim – To trim any leading or trailing whitespace (Strip whitespace does so too, but is less effective)
 * First word – To trim down to the first space.
 * Remove first word – To remove anything before the first space.
 * Str letter/trim – To trim down to the beginning letters.
 * Str number/trim – To trim down to the beginning numbers.


 * group3= Insert strings
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 * Loop – Repeat character string n times
 * Replace – Returns the string, after replacing all occurrences of a specified string with another string.
 * Strloc insert – Inserts a string at character location strloc, or appends if strloc<=0.
 * Strloc prefix – Extracts string prefix up to location strloc, or whole string if strloc<=0.
 * Str rep – Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.


 * group4= Length
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 * Str len – Returns a string's length.
 * iflenge – IF LENgth Greater then or Equal to.
 * Str ≥ len – To check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.
 * Str ≤ len – To check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.
 * Str ≠ len – To check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.
 * Str ≤ ≥ len – To check if a string is "shorter", "equal", or "longer" than a given length.


 * group5=Analyse string
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 * Str endswith – To check if a string ends with a given string.
 * Str find – Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
 * Strfind short – Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
 * Str find0 – Zero-based substring search.
 * Str sub find – Searches a substring in a string at the given offset.
 * ASCII code – Returns the ASCII value of a single character.
 * Str letter – Returns the number of letters that begin a string.
 * Str number – Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.
 * Str gtr str – Compares two strings for alphabetical order, and returns a value accordingly.


 * group6=Trim, dedicated
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 * WikiProjectbasename - Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename
 * Remove unranked - Removes the string "unranked_" from the left of a string (taxonomy).
 * Ship prefix – Returns the length of a ship name prefix, if listed (ship names).
 * Title without disambig – To trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation).
 * Title disambig text – Returns text in parenthesis at the end of a string (disambiguation).
 * Unlink – Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode).
 * Remove file prefix—Removes "File:" or "Image:" from filenames.


 * group11=Technical developments
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 * Module:String
 * mw:Help:Magic words – About.
 * mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions – About  etc.


 * group12=Feature requests
 * list12
 * 6455 – Set $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true on WMF wikis
 * 26092 – Enable or install string parsing wikimarkup functionality on WMF wikis

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