Template:Str sub long

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Please see: {{#invoke:string|sub}}.

Usage

{{str sub old|text|start|length}} = Substring of text starting at start and containing length characters. Zero-indexed: the first character is numbered 0, and so on, e.g. {{str sub old|20090624130510|8|2}} returns the 2 characters starting at the 9th, i.e. "

• 200906241*
• 2009062413*".

Examples

• {{str sub old|1234567|3|2}} —>
• 1234*
• 12345*
• {{str sub old| alphabet|0|5}} —> alpha
• {{str sub old| alphabet|5|999}} —>
• alphab*
• alphabe*
• alphabet*Template:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingErrorTemplate:FormattingError
• {{str sub old|alph abet|0|5}} —> alph
• {{str sub old| three words  here |4|10}} —>
• three*
• three *
• three w*
• three wo*
• three wor*
• three word*
• three words*
• three words *
• three words *
• three words h*

Any leading spaces are skipped, but internal spaces are counted exactly, yet compressed when displayed.

Template data

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TemplateData for Str sub long

{
        "description": "The template takes a substring of ''text'' starting at ''start'' and containing ''length'' characters.",
        "params": {
                "1": {
                        "label": "Text",
                        "description": "The substring to be trimmed.",
                        "type": "string",
                        "required": true
                },
                "2": {
                        "label": "Numeric position",
                        "description": "Numeric position of the starting character within the string",
                        "type": "number",
                        "required": true
                },
                "3": {
                        "label": "Count",
                        "description": "Number of characters for the substring",
                        "type": "number",
                        "required": true
                }
        }
}

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