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Usage
Returns the first word of the first parameter. By default, words are delimited by spaces, but optional parameter sep=/ can set the word separator to slash (or any other character). The parameter should not have leading spaces, unless the word separator, sep, is set to another character.
Examples
- {{first word|Foo bar baz}} → Foo
- {{first word|Foo}} → Foo
- {{first word|Foo-bar-baz}} → Foo-bar-baz
- {{first word|Foo-bar-baz|sep=- }} → Foo
- {{first word|34,000,500|sep=, }} → 34
- {{first word|1=len = a+b |sep== }} → len
- {{first word|Hear ye, users |sep=, }} → Hear ye
See also
String handling templates |
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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.
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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.
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| | Length |
- {{Str len}} – Returns a string's length.
- {{iflenge}} – IF LENgth Greater than 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.
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| | Analyse string |
- {{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.
- {{a or an}} – Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.
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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.
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