Template:Str left/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Str left.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.
To view the template page itself, see Template:Str left.

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}}

Usage

{{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 />,  , <!-- HTML comments --> are problematic; see Wikipedia for details

Further reading

• wikipedia:Template:Str left