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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.
Examples
{{Str number/trim}}
→
{{Str number/trim|abcde}}
→
{{Str number/trim|abcde123}}
→
{{Str number/trim|123456}}
→ 123456
{{Str number/trim|123 456}}
→ 123
{{Str number/trim|123.456}}
→ 123
{{Str number/trim|1976–2006}}
→ 1976
{{Str number/trim|19/76+2006}}
→ 19
{{Str number/trim|19 (302)}}
→ 19
{{Str number/trim|1234abc}}
→ 1234
{{Str number/trim|1234abc56}}
→ 1234
{{Str number/trim|12345678901234567890}}
→ 12345678901234567890
{{Str number/trim|1234567890123456789012345}}
→ 1234567890123456789012345
{{Str number/trim| 1234567890123456789012345}}
→ 1234567890123456789012345
{{Str number/trim|13<ref>a reference</ref>}}
→ 13
References
See also
{{Cardinal }}, remove ordinal indicators, eg. {{cardinal |1st}} → 1
{{Digits }}, remove all characters from a string that are not digits
String-handling templates
(help page) Substring (select chunk of string by its position)
{{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.
Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type)
{{Trim }} Trim any leading or trailing whitespace {{Str letter/trim }} Trim down to the beginning letters. {{Str number/trim }} Trim down to the beginning numbers. {{Trim brackets }} Trim any leading or trailing square brackets. {{Trim quotes }} Trim leading or trailing matching quotes. {{Trim leading }} Trim up to six instances of specified <prefix>.
Select/remove specific item from string
{{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.
Insertion, replacement and length
{{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.
{{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.
Analysis and searching
{{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.
Modules and built-in functions