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The indices are one-based (meaning the first is number one), inclusive (meaning the indices you specify are included), and may be negative to count from the other end. For example, {{#invoke:string|sub|12345678|2|-3}} → 23456. Not all the legacy substring templates use this numbering scheme, so check the documentation of unfamiliar templates.
If string is not found, it outputs zero (0). The word "short" in the title is a relic of the pre- Lua implementation and has no meaning for the current version. This template is a simple wrapper around {{ #invoke:string |find}}, which may be used directly for more options.
This is the {{Str startswith}} meta-template.. It returns "yes" if the second parameter is the start of the first parameter. Both parameters are trimmed before use. Examples
A simple and inefficient way to see where one string occurs inside another is to check at each index, one by one. First, we see if there is a copy of the needle starting at the first character of the haystack; if not, we look to see if there's a copy of the needle starting at the second character of the haystack, and so forth.
The closeness of a match is measured in terms of the number of primitive operations necessary to convert the string into an exact match. This number is called the edit distance between the string and the pattern. The usual primitive operations are: [1] insertion: cot → coat; deletion: coat → cot
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A string-matching algorithm wants to find the starting index m in string S[] that matches the search word W[]. The most straightforward algorithm, known as the "brute-force" or "naive" algorithm, is to look for a word match at each index m, i.e. the position in the string being searched that corresponds to the character S[m].