Template:Str left

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Description

Extracts the first count characters from string. Leading whitespace is trimmed. Both of these examples return Lorem:

{{Str left|Lorem ipsum|5}}

{{Str left|            Lorem ipsum|5}}

{{Str left|string|count}}

There are several quirks to the usage:

if count is invalid, empty, or zero; an empty string is returned
- like {{Str left|example|X}} →
if undefined, count defaults to 1
- like {{Str left|example}} → e
maximum search length is 500, no error shown
- attempting to extract 501 characters from a 501-character string returns 500 characters
non-text has issues
- things like  , <nowiki />,  ,  are problematic; see Wikipedia for details