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On Wikipedia you can use a limited version of regex called a Lua pattern to select and modify bits of text from a string. The pattern is a piece of code describing what you are looking for in the string. The symbols you an use in a pattern are: . means any individual character. ... would mean any three characters, etc. *, +, ?, and -are the ...
This template removes the first word of the first parameter. Use |1= for the first parameter if the string may contain an equals sign (=). By default, words are delimited by spaces, but the optional parameter |sep= can set the separator to any character.
Space normalization is a related string manipulation where in addition to removing surrounding whitespace, any sequence of whitespace characters within the string is replaced with a single space. Space normalization is performed by the function named Trim() in spreadsheet applications (including Excel , Calc , Gnumeric , and Google Docs ), and ...
The template trims whitespace from a string. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status String 1 The string to be trimmed of whitespace String required See also {{ remove border }}
Returns string with the first n occurrences of target replaced with replacement. Omitting count will replace all occurrences. Space counts as a character if placed in any of the first three parameters.
A template to give the <count> substring of characters from the start of the trimmed string Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status String 1 The string to be trimmed and counted String required Count 2 Gives the <count> substring of characters from the start of the trimmed string Number required See also Bugzilla:22555 (historical; need for correcting padleft ...
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{{#invoke:String|sublength|s= target_string |i= start_index |len= length}} Parameters: s The string i The starting index of the substring to return. The first character of the string is assigned an index of 0. len The length of the string to return, defaults to the last character. Examples: {{#invoke:String|sublength|s= abcdefghi }} → abcdefghi