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| title= String handling templates
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| tracking = no <!-- keep all these string templates out of the tracking category -->
| above=''As of February 2013, these templates are being optimised using [[WP:Lua|Lua]] modules.''
| group1 = [[Trim (programming)|Trim]] by counting
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* {{tl|Str mid}} – To return a substring, specified by its position and length.
* {{tl|Trunc}} – To trim down to a specified number of characters.
* {{tl|Str left}} – To trim down to a specified number of characters, or duplicate the string to a specified number.
* {{tl|Str crop}} – To crop a specified number of characters off the end.
* {{tl|Chop head and tail}} – To crop a specified number of characters off the beginning and end.
* {{tl|Str right}} – To trim the first specified number of characters.
* {{tl|Str rightc}} – To return a number of characters from the end, returns a parameter if the string is empty.
* {{tl|Str rightmost}} – To trim down to the last specified number of characters.
* {{tl|Str sub old}} – To trim down to a specified number, starting at a given number from the left.
* {{tl|Str sub new}} – Select a substr based on starting and ending index.
* {{tl|Str index}} – Returns a given character from a string, but not accented letters.

| group2=Trim by checking
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* {{tl|Trim}} – To trim any leading or trailing whitespace ({{tl|Strip whitespace}} does so too, but is less effective)
* {{tl|First word}} – To trim down to the first space.
* {{tl|Remove first word}} – To remove anything before the first space.
* {{tl|Str letter/trim}} – To trim down to the beginning letters.
* {{tl|Str number/trim}} – To trim down to the beginning numbers.

| group3= Insert strings
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* {{tl|Loop}} – Repeat character string n times
* {{tl|Replace}} – Returns the string, after replacing ''all'' occurrences of a specified string with another string.
* {{tl|Strloc insert}} – Inserts a string at character location strloc, or appends if strloc<=0.
* {{tl|Strloc prefix}} – Extracts string prefix up to location strloc, or whole string if strloc<=0.
* {{tl|Str rep|Str rep}} – Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.

|group4= Length
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* {{tl|Str len}} – Returns a string's length.
* {{tl|iflenge}} – IF LENgth Greater than or Equal to.
* {{tl|Str ≥ len}} – To check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.
* {{tl|Str ≤ len}} – To check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.
* {{tl|Str ≠ len}} – To check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.
* {{tl|Str ≤ ≥ len}} – To check if a string is "shorter", "equal", or "longer" than a given length.

| group5=Analyse string
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* {{tl|Str endswith}} – To check if a string ends with a given string.
* {{tl|Str find}} – Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
* {{tl|Strfind short}} – Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
* {{tl|Str find0}} – Zero-based substring search.
* {{tl|Str sub find}} – Searches a substring in a string at the given offset.
* {{tl|ASCII code}} – Returns the ASCII value of a single character.
* {{tl|Str letter}} – Returns the number of letters that begin a string.
* {{tl|Str number}} – Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.
* {{tl|Str gtr str}} – Compares two strings for alphabetical order, and returns a value accordingly.
* {{tl|a or an}} – Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.

| group6=Trim, dedicated
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* {{tl|WikiProjectbasename}} - Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename
* {{tl|Remove unranked}} - Removes the string "unranked_" from the left of a string (taxonomy).
* {{tl|Ship prefix}} – Returns the length of a ship name prefix, if listed (ship names).
* {{tl|Title without disambig}} – To trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string  (disambiguation).
* {{tl|Title disambig text}} – Returns text in parenthesis at the end of a string  (disambiguation).
* {{tl|Unlink}} – Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode).
* {{tl|Remove file prefix}}—Removes "File:" or "Image:" from filenames.

|group11=Technical developments
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* [[Module:String]]
* [[mw:Help:Magic words]] – About <code><nowiki>{{padleft:|}}</nowiki></code>.
* [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions]] – About <code><nowiki>{{#titleparts:|}}, {{#expr:|}}, {{#ifeq:|}}, </nowiki></code> etc.

|group12=Feature requests
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* [[bugzilla:6455]] – Set $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true on WMF wikis
* [[bugzilla:26092]] – Enable or install string parsing wikimarkup functionality on WMF wikis

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* {{tl|Str find/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str index/getchar/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str index/getchar/testcases}}
* {{tl|Str index/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str index/testcases}}
* {{tl|Str index any/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str index any/testcases}}
* {{tl|Str left/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str len/core/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str len/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str len/testcases}}
* {{tl|Str rightc/testcases}}
* {{tl|Str ≠ len/sandbox}}
* {{tl|Str ≠ len/testcases}}
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* [[:Category:String manipulation templates]]
* [[m:Category:String templates]]
* [[:commons:Category:String manipulation templates]]
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