Template:Str startswith
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.
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String-handling templates (help page) |
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Substring (select chunk of string by its position) |
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| {str sub new} | Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction. | | {str left} | Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters. | | {str crop} | Return all but the last N characters of a string. | | {str index} | Return the N-th character of a string. |
| | {str right} | Return substring starting at N-th character to end of string. | | {str rightc} | Return the last N characters of a string; or a given value if empty. | | {str sub old} | Return substring of given length starting at N-th character. |
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Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type) |
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Select/remove specific item from string |
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| {delink}, {trim brackets} | Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode); all or outer only. | | {Plain text} | Removes wikicode (formatting and brackets) | | {PAGENAMEBASE} | Trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation). | | {title disambig text} | Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation). |
| | {title year} | Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any. | | {title decade} | Returns the 4-digit decade from a pagename (e.g. "1740" from "Foo 1740s bar"), if any. | | {title number} | Returns any number from a pagename. | | {WikiProjectbasename} | Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename. |
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Insertion, replacement and length |
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| {loop} | Repeat character string a specified number of times. | | {replace} | Returns the string, after replacing all occurrences of a specified string with another string. | | {str rep} | Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string. | | {digits} | Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9 | | {Nowiki} | Displays wikitext as plain text. |
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| {str len} | Returns a string's length. | | {str ≥ len} | Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length. | | {str ≤ len} | Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length. | | {str ≠ len} | Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length. |
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Analysis and searching |
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| {Array} | Array item manipulation and retrieval. | | {a or an} | Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel. | | {in string} | Returns optional string when given string is not found | | {Isnumeric} | Returns number when true, blank when not numeric. | | {str letter} | Returns the number of letters that begin a string. | | {str number} | Returns the number of numbers that begin a string. |
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Modules and built-in functions |
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