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Wikipedia does not have the "StringFunctions" series of parser functions (listed below), and is not going to get them (per phab:T8455). Instead, templates use Lua (via Module:String or otherwise), alongside existing parser functions. None of these functions will work, but they have alternatives: #len – use {{#invoke:string|len}}
The Template:Str_number/trim extracts a number at the start of parameter 1. It takes a string as parameter, and returns the string trimmed to the beginning number if non-numeric text does not appear before the first number.
Split and join string: splitting the string into an array, merging it with the corresponding array of values, then joining items by concatenation. The split string can be cached for reuse. The split string can be cached for reuse.
«FUNCTION» BYTE-LENGTH(string) number of characters and number of bytes, respectively COBOL: string length string: a decimal string giving the number of characters Tcl: ≢ string: APL: string.len() Number of bytes Rust [30] string.chars().count() Number of Unicode code points Rust [31]
The title function capitalises the first letter of each word in the text, apart from a number of short words listed in The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual §3.49 "Center and side heads": a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, or, and nor.
The template takes a substring of ''text'' starting at ''start'' and containing ''length'' characters. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Text 1 The substring to be trimmed. String required Numeric position 2 Numeric position of the starting character within the string Number required Count 3 Number of characters for the substring Number required See also
The return value is an empty string if the parameter does not meet the conditions. When the condition is matched or some result is successfully found, strings of at least one character are returned. char Creates a string from a list of character codes. 1 Space-separated list of character codes *
The first character has an index value of 1. If one requests a negative value, this function will select a character by counting backwards from the end of the string. In other words pos = -1 is the same as asking for the last character.