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data-title="Nhwɛdo:Find country" data-language-autonym="Mfantse" data-language-local-name="Fanti" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mfantse</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE:Find_country" title="ढाँचा:Find country – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="ढाँचा:Find country" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE:Find_country" title="ਫਰਮਾ:Find country – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਫਰਮਾ:Find country" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="வார்ப்புரு:Find country" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eablon:%C3%9Clke_bul" title="Şablon:Ülke bul – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Şablon:Ülke bul" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%A3n_m%E1%BA%ABu:Find_country" title="Bản mẫu:Find country – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Bản mẫu:Find country" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a 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The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Find_country" title="Template talk:Find country">talk page</a> before implementing them.</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="plainlinks ombox mbox-small ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Lua-Logo.svg/30px-Lua-Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Lua-Logo.svg/45px-Lua-Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Lua-Logo.svg/60px-Lua-Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="947" data-file-height="947" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text">This template uses <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lua" title="Wikipedia:Lua">Lua</a>: <div><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Module:Find_country" title="Module:Find country">Module:Find country</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Extracts from string the name of a continent or country (Africa, India, the United Kingdom etc). Returns nothing if there is no match. </p><p>Note that the country in the string <i>must</i> properly capitalised. "India" will be matched, but "india" or "INDIA" will be ignored. </p><p>The list of countries is hard-coded in a list in <a href="/wiki/Module:Find_country" title="Module:Find country">Module:Find country</a>, based on the list in <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Football_demonyms" title="Template:Football demonyms">Football demonyms</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> - the code works its way down that list in order. The "longest" form of a country name comes first, so eg "the United Kingdom" comes before "United Kingdom" and so both will be matched, but the "the" form if present will be returned first (and hence is returned by default unless the match parameter is set otherwise) </p><p>Some options allow its behaviour to be configured. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basic_usage">Basic usage</h3></div> <p><code>{{<a href="/w/index.php?title=Find_country&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Find country (page does not exist)">Find country</a>|Foo}}</code> </p><p>This usage will return the first time in string Foo which matches the correctly-capitalised name of a continent or country. </p><p>If no match is found, it returns an empty string. This allows its simple use in templates, e.g. </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-wikitext mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">{{</span><span class="nf">#if</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{{</span><span class="nt">Find country</span><span class="p">}}|</span><span class="cm"></span><span class="p">|</span>This string does not include a country<span class="p">}}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Optional_parameters">Optional parameters</h3></div> <p>One parameter is obligatory, two optional parameters are available: </p> <ul><li><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|<var style="padding-right: 1px;">string</var>=<var style="padding-right: 1px;">value</var></code></li></ul> <dl><dd>This forces the template to use a title other than the current page</dd></dl> <ul><li><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|<var style="padding-right: 1px;">nomatch</var>=<var style="padding-right: 1px;">value</var></code></li></ul> <dl><dd>This parameter is used to specify a message to be generate if no match is found. For example <dl><dd><u>Default output</u> <code>{{Find country|The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}}</code> →</dd> <dd><u>with nomatch</u> <code>{{Find country|The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog|nomatch=No country!}}</code> → No country!</dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><code class="tpl-para" style="word-break:break-word;">|<var style="padding-right: 1px;">match</var>=<var style="padding-right: 1px;">number</var></code></li></ul> <dl><dd>If multiple country names are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1.</dd> <dd>Examples: <dl><dd><code>{{Find country|Events in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan (and maybe Sri Lanka) |match=2}}</code> → India</dd> <dd><code>{{Find country|Events in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan (and maybe Sri Lanka)|match=-2}}</code> → Pakistan</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="TemplateData">TemplateData</h2></div> <div class="templatedata-header">This is the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TemplateData" title="Wikipedia:TemplateData">TemplateData</a> for this template used by <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateWizard" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:TemplateWizard">TemplateWizard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor" title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor">VisualEditor</a> and other tools. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bambots.brucemyers.com/TemplateParam.php?wiki=enwiki&template=Find+country">See a monthly parameter usage report</a> for <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Template:Find country</a> in articles based on its TemplateData. <p><b>TemplateData for Find country</b> </p> </div> <section class="mw-templatedata-doc-wrap"><header><p class="mw-templatedata-doc-desc">Extracts a country name from a string. All parameters are optional.</p></header><table class="wikitable mw-templatedata-doc-params sortable"><caption><p class="mw-templatedata-caption">Template parameters<span class="mw-editsection-like"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Find_country/doc&action=edit&templatedata=edit" title="Template:Find country/doc">Edit template data</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></p></caption><thead><tr><th colspan="2">Parameter</th><th>Description</th><th>Type</th><th>Status</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th>Search string</th><td class="mw-templatedata-doc-param-name"><code>string</code></td><td><p>String to search for country. If left blank, the template will return a blank, the bare module will use the page name</p><dl></dl></td><td class="mw-templatedata-doc-param-type">String</td><td class="mw-templatedata-doc-param-status-optional" data-sort-value="0">optional</td></tr><tr><th>Match Instance</th><td class="mw-templatedata-doc-param-name"><code>match</code></td><td><p>If multiple countries are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1.</p><dl><dt>Default</dt><dd>1</dd></dl></td><td class="mw-templatedata-doc-param-type">Number</td><td class="mw-templatedata-doc-param-status-optional" data-sort-value="0">optional</td></tr><tr><th>No match text</th><td class="mw-templatedata-doc-param-name"><code>nomatch</code></td><td><p>If no countries are found, output the "nomatch" value. 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