String handling templates
As of February 2013, these templates are being optimised using Lua modules. Trim by counting
{{ 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.
Trim by checking Insert strings
{{ 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.
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.
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.
Trim, dedicated
{{ 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.
Technical developments