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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9:Ustring" title="وحدة:Ustring – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="وحدة:Ustring" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%B2:Ustring" title="মডিউল:Ustring – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মডিউল:Ustring" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C:Ustring" title="Модуль:Ustring – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Модуль:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86:Ustring" title="پودمان:Ustring – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پودمان:Ustring" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EB%93%88:Ustring" title="모듈:Ustring – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="모듈:Ustring" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo:Ustring" title="Modulo:Ustring – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Modulo:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%98%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%82:Ustring" title="ഘടകം:Ustring – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഘടകം:Ustring" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%BA%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%B0%E1%80%B8:Ustring" title="မော်ဂျူး:Ustring – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="မော်ဂျူး:Ustring" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C:Ustring" title="Модуль:Ustring – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Модуль:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%8C%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%8A%E0%A8%B2:Ustring" title="ਮੌਡਿਊਲ:Ustring – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮੌਡਿਊਲ:Ustring" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>पालि</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3dulo:Ustring" title="Módulo:Ustring – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Módulo:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modul:Ustring" title="Modul:Ustring – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Modul:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%86%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84:Ustring" title="مۆدیوول:Ustring – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="مۆدیوول:Ustring" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BB:Ustring" title="Модул:Ustring – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Модул:Ustring" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ustring" title="Module:Ustring – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="Module:Ustring" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%B1%E1%82%83%E1%82%87%E1%81%B5%E1%80%BB%E1%80%B0%E1%80%B8:Ustring" title="မေႃႇၵျူး:Ustring – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="မေႃႇၵျူး:Ustring" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" 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It has reached a mature form and is thought to be relatively bug-free and ready for use wherever appropriate. It is ready to mention on help pages and other Wikipedia resources as an option for new users to learn. To reduce server load and bad output, it should be improved by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_sandbox_and_test_cases" title="Wikipedia:Template sandbox and test cases">sandbox testing</a> rather than repeated trial-and-error editing.</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This module directly imports all functions from the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Ustring_library" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual"><code style="white-space:nowrap;color:inherit;">mw.ustring</code></a> library. Documentation for each function can be found there. </p><p>The module takes an indefinite number of arguments. Arguments given as <code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|s1=</code>, <code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|s2=</code>, etc, are read first, and are used as strings. All remaining numerical arguments are coerced to number type if possible, and remain strings if not. If you wish for a numerical (i.e. unnamed or "<code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|1=</code>", "<code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|2=</code>") to remain a string, you can simply escape it by inserting <code>\</code> at the beginning of the string. </p><p>Note that MediaWiki will always trim whitespace from named arguments; to give arguments with surrounding whitespace you must use unnamed parameters starting with <code>\</code>. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>How to pass inconvenient strings </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>To pass this...</th> <th>Write this</th> <th>Explanation </th></tr> <tr> <td><code>" 0123 "</code></td> <td><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|\ 123 </code></td> <td>To get surrounding whitespace must use unnamed, but must precede with <code>\</code> to indicate that it isn't a number. </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>"0123"</code></td> <td><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|s1=0123</code></td> <td>If you don't need to preserve whitespace use <code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|s1=</code> etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td><code>"0123"</code></td> <td><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|1=\0123</code></td> <td>If you don't need to preserve whitespace explicitly use <code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|1=</code> etc. </td></tr> <tr> <td>In another template, to pass its parameter <code>{{{1}}}</code>, preserving whitespace</td> <td><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|\{{{1}}}</code></td> <td>Must provide the <code>\</code> with unknown string input. </td></tr> <tr> <td>In another template, to pass its parameter <code>{{{1}}}</code>, stripping whitespace</td> <td><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|s1={{{1}}}</code></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>In another template, to pass its parameter <code>{{{1}}}</code>, stripping whitespace</td> <td><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|1=\{{#if:1|{{{1}}}}}</code></td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>You can also wrap results in tags. All other unused arguments will be passed to <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#frame:extensionTag" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual"><code style="white-space:nowrap;color:inherit;"> frame:extensionTag</code></a> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2></div> <p><code>{{#invoke:Ustring|<i>function_name</i>|arg1|arg2|...}}</code> is equivalent to <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Ustring_library" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual"><code style="white-space:nowrap;color:inherit;">mw.ustring.<i>function_name</i><span style="color:initial;"><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-lua mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">arg1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">arg2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">...</span> <span class="p">)</span></code> </span></code></a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_using_mw.ustring.sub">Example using mw.ustring.sub</h3></div> <p><code>{{#invoke:Ustring|sub|s1=abcde|2|4}}</code> </p><p>produces: </p><p>bcd </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_using_mw.ustring.gsub">Example using mw.ustring.gsub</h3></div> <p><code>{{#invoke:Ustring|gsub|s1=1234|23|}}</code> </p><p>produces: </p><p>14 </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_using_mw.ustring.char">Example using mw.ustring.char</h3></div> <p><code>&amp;#{{#invoke:ustring|char|49|48|59}}</code> </p><p>produces: </p><p>&#10; </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_using_mw.ustring.match">Example using mw.ustring.match</h3></div> <p><code>{{#invoke:Ustring|match|s1=abcde|s2=(c%w)}}</code> </p><p>produces: </p><p>cd </p><p>Note: Only the first match is returned. Additional returns are omitted because mw.ustring.gsub's second return value is generally undesirable. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Example_using_tag_arguments">Example using tag arguments</h3></div> <pre>{{#invoke:Ustring|match |s1={{Module:Ustring}}|%s%s%sif%snot%s[^%s]+%sthen.+% %s%s%send |tag=syntaxhighlight|lang=lua}}</pre> <p>produces: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-lua mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span> <span class="kr">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">tag</span> <span class="kr">then</span> <span class="kr">return</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">what</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">unpack</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">)))</span> <span class="c1">-- Outside parens truncate to first result avoiding tail call</span> <span class="kr">end</span> <span class="kd">local</span> <span class="n">tagargs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{}</span> <span class="kr">for</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="kr">in</span> <span class="nb">pairs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="kr">do</span> <span class="kr">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">fargsused</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="kr">then</span> <span class="n">tagargs</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="kr">end</span> <span class="kr">end</span> </pre></div> <p>Note that: </p> <pre><syntaxhighlight lang="lua">{{#invoke:Ustring|match |s1={{Module:Ustring}}|%s%s%sif%snot%s[^%s]+%sthen.+% %s%s%send}}</syntaxhighlight></pre> <p>produces: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-lua mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="o">#</span><span class="n">invoke</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">Ustring</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="n">match</span> <span class="o">|</span><span class="n">s1</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="n">Module</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">Ustring</span><span class="p">}}</span><span class="o">|%</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="n">sif</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="n">snot</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="o">^%</span><span class="n">s</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">+%</span><span class="n">sthen</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="o">+%</span> <span class="o"><</span><span class="err">!</span><span class="c1">--enter an actual newline character to match '\n'-->%s%s%send}}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Errors">Errors</h2></div> <p>Errors from accessing <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Ustring_library" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual"><code style="white-space:nowrap;color:inherit;">mw.ustring</code></a> should be maintained, e.g.: </p><p><code>{{#invoke:Ustring|xyzzy}}</code> </p><p>should produce: </p><p><strong class="error"><span class="scribunto-error">Script error: The function "xyzzy" does not exist.</span></strong> </p><p>and </p><p><code>{{#invoke:Ustring|maxPatternLength}}</code> </p><p>should produce: </p><p><strong class="error"><span class="scribunto-error">Script error: "maxPatternLength" is not a function.</span></strong> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist 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template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="String-handling_templates_(help_page)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">String-handling templates <a href="/wiki/Help:Manipulating_strings" title="Help:Manipulating strings">(help page)</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Substring_(select_chunk_of_string_by_its_position)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Substring (select chunk of string by its position)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none;text-align: left;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width:50%;;"> <table style="padding-right: 2em;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_sub_new" title="Template:Str sub new">str sub new</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_left" title="Template:Str left">str left</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_crop" title="Template:Str crop">str crop</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Return all but the last N characters of a string.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_index" title="Template:Str index">str index</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Return the N-th character of a string.</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td> <table><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_right" title="Template:Str right">str right</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Return substring starting at N-th character to end of string.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_rightc" title="Template:Str rightc">str rightc</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Return the last N characters of a string; or a given value if empty.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_sub_old" title="Template:Str sub old">str sub old</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Return substring of given length starting at N-th character.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Trimming_(select/remove_chunk_of_string_by_character_type)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none;text-align: left;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width:50%;;"> <table style="padding-right: 2em;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Trim" title="Template:Trim">trim</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim any leading or trailing whitespace</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_letter/trim" title="Template:Str letter/trim">str letter/trim</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim down to the beginning letters.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_number/trim" title="Template:Str number/trim">str number/trim</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim down to the beginning numbers.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Trim_brackets" title="Template:Trim brackets">trim brackets</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim any leading or trailing square brackets.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Trim_quotes" title="Template:Trim quotes">trim quotes</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim leading or trailing matching quotes.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Trim_leading" title="Template:Trim leading">trim leading</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim up to six instances of specified <prefix>.</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td> <table><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:String_split" title="Template:String split">string split</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Extract a short string from a long string.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:First_word" title="Template:First word">first word</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim down to the first space.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Remove_first_word" title="Template:Remove first word">remove first word</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Remove anything before the first space.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Last_word" title="Template:Last word">last word</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim down from the last space.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Remove_last_word" title="Template:Remove last word">remove last word</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Remove anything after the last space.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Select/remove_specific_item_from_string" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Select/remove specific item from string</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px 0px;border:none;text-align:left;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width:50%;;"> <table style="padding-right: 2em;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Delink" title="Template:Delink">delink</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Trim_brackets" title="Template:Trim brackets">trim brackets</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode); <i>all</i> or <i>outer only</i>.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Plain_text" title="Template:Plain text">Plain text</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Removes wikicode (formatting and brackets)</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:PAGENAMEBASE" title="Template:PAGENAMEBASE">PAGENAMEBASE</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation).</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Title_disambig_text" title="Template:Title disambig text">title disambig text</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation).</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td> <table><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Title_year" title="Template:Title year">title year</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Title_decade" title="Template:Title decade">title decade</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns the 4-digit decade from a pagename (e.g. "1740" from "Foo 1740s bar"), if any.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Title_number" title="Template:Title number">title number</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns any number from a pagename.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="width: 12em; text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProjectbasename" title="Template:WikiProjectbasename">WikiProjectbasename</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Insertion,_replacement_and_length" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Insertion, replacement and length</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="margin: 0 auto 0; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td> <table style="padding-right: 2em;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Loop" title="Template:Loop">loop</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Repeat character string a specified number of times.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Replace" title="Template:Replace">replace</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns the string, after replacing <i>all</i> occurrences of a specified string with another string.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_rep" title="Template:Str rep">str rep</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Digits" title="Template:Digits">digits</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Nowiki" title="Template:Nowiki">Nowiki</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Displays wikitext as plain text.</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td> <table><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_len" title="Template:Str len">str len</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Returns a string's length.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_%E2%89%A5_len" title="Template:Str ≥ len">str ≥ len</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_%E2%89%A4_len" title="Template:Str ≤ len">str ≤ len</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_%E2%89%A0_len" title="Template:Str ≠ len">str ≠ len</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Analysis_and_searching" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Analysis and searching</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="margin: 0 auto 0; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td> <table style="padding-right: 2em;"><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_startswith" title="Template:Str startswith">str startswith</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span><br /><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_endswith" title="Template:Str endswith">str endswith</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Check if a string starts or ends with a given string.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_find" title="Template:Str find">str find</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Strfind_short" title="Template:Strfind short">strfind short</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;"> Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Str_count" title="Template:Str count">str count</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></td><td> Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string.</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td> <table><tbody><tr style="vertical-align:top"><td style="text-align: right; padding-right: 0.75em;"> <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Array" 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module</a>.</div></div> <p><span id="code"></span> </p><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-lua mw-content-ltr mw-highlight-lines" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span id="L-1"><a href="#L-1"><span class="linenos" data-line="1"></span></a><span class="nb">require</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'strict'</span><span class="p">)</span> </span><span id="L-2"><a href="#L-2"><span class="linenos" data-line="2"></span></a><span class="kr">return</span> <span class="nb">setmetatable</span><span class="p">({},</span> <span class="p">{</span> </span><span id="L-3"><a href="#L-3"><span class="linenos" data-line="3"></span></a> <span class="n">__index</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kr">function</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">t</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">k</span><span class="p">)</span> </span><span id="L-4"><a href="#L-4"><span class="linenos" data-line="4"></span></a> <span class="kd">local</span> <span class="n">what</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">ustring</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">k</span><span class="p">]</span> </span><span id="L-5"><a href="#L-5"><span class="linenos" data-line="5"></span></a> <span class="kr">if</span> <span class="nb">type</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">what</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">~=</span> <span class="s2">"function"</span> <span class="kr">then</span> </span><span id="L-6"><a href="#L-6"><span class="linenos" data-line="6"></span></a> <span class="kr">return</span> <span class="n">what</span> </span><span id="L-7"><a href="#L-7"><span class="linenos" data-line="7"></span></a> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-8"><a href="#L-8"><span class="linenos" data-line="8"></span></a> <span class="kr">return</span> <span class="kr">function</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">frame</span><span class="p">)</span> </span><span id="L-9"><a href="#L-9"><span class="linenos" data-line="9"></span></a> <span class="kd">local</span> <span class="n">fargs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">frame</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">args</span> </span><span id="L-10"><a href="#L-10"><span class="linenos" data-line="10"></span></a> <span class="kd">local</span> <span class="n">fargsused</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="n">tag</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">true</span> <span class="p">}</span> </span><span id="L-11"><a href="#L-11"><span class="linenos" data-line="11"></span></a> <span class="kd">local</span> <span class="n">args</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{}</span> </span><span id="L-12"><a href="#L-12"><span class="linenos" data-line="12"></span></a> <span class="kd">local</span> <span class="n">str_i</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span> </span><span id="L-13"><a href="#L-13"><span class="linenos" data-line="13"></span></a> <span class="kr">while</span> <span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'s'</span> <span class="o">..</span> <span class="n">str_i</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="kr">do</span> </span><span id="L-14"><a href="#L-14"><span class="linenos" data-line="14"></span></a> <span class="n">fargsused</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'s'</span> <span class="o">..</span> <span class="n">str_i</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">true</span> </span><span id="L-15"><a href="#L-15"><span class="linenos" data-line="15"></span></a> <span class="n">args</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">str_i</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'s'</span> <span class="o">..</span> <span class="n">str_i</span><span class="p">]</span> </span><span id="L-16"><a href="#L-16"><span class="linenos" data-line="16"></span></a> <span class="n">str_i</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">str_i</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">1</span> </span><span id="L-17"><a href="#L-17"><span class="linenos" data-line="17"></span></a> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-18"><a href="#L-18"><span class="linenos" data-line="18"></span></a> <span class="kr">for</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">v</span> <span class="kr">in</span> <span class="nb">ipairs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="kr">do</span> </span><span id="L-19"><a href="#L-19"><span class="linenos" data-line="19"></span></a> <span class="n">fargsused</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">true</span> </span><span id="L-20"><a href="#L-20"><span class="linenos" data-line="20"></span></a> <span class="n">args</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">i</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">str_i</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">tonumber</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">v</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">v</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">gsub</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"^</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">""</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> </span><span id="L-21"><a href="#L-21"><span class="linenos" data-line="21"></span></a> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-22"><a href="#L-22"><span class="linenos" data-line="22"></span></a> <span class="kr">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">tag</span> <span class="kr">then</span> </span><span id="L-23"><a href="#L-23"><span class="linenos" data-line="23"></span></a> <span class="kr">return</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">what</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">unpack</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">)))</span> <span class="c1">-- Outside parens truncate to first result avoiding tail call</span> </span><span id="L-24"><a href="#L-24"><span class="linenos" data-line="24"></span></a> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-25"><a href="#L-25"><span class="linenos" data-line="25"></span></a> <span class="kd">local</span> <span class="n">tagargs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{}</span> </span><span id="L-26"><a href="#L-26"><span class="linenos" data-line="26"></span></a> <span class="kr">for</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="kr">in</span> <span class="nb">pairs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="kr">do</span> </span><span id="L-27"><a href="#L-27"><span class="linenos" data-line="27"></span></a> <span class="kr">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">fargsused</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="kr">then</span> <span class="n">tagargs</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">x</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">y</span> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-28"><a href="#L-28"><span class="linenos" data-line="28"></span></a> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-29"><a href="#L-29"><span class="linenos" data-line="29"></span></a> <span class="kr">return</span> <span class="n">frame</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">extensionTag</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">fargs</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">tag</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">content</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">what</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">unpack</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">)),</span> <span class="n">args</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tagargs</span><span class="p">}</span> </span><span id="L-30"><a href="#L-30"><span class="linenos" data-line="30"></span></a> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-31"><a href="#L-31"><span class="linenos" data-line="31"></span></a> <span class="kr">end</span> </span><span id="L-32"><a href="#L-32"><span class="linenos" data-line="32"></span></a><span class="p">})</span> </span></pre></div>   </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" 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