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< Template:Trim
This is the template sandbox page for Template:Trim (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]
WarningThis template is used on approximately 1,780,000 pages, or roughly 3% of all pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
This template is for trimming whitespace from strings. For the maintenance tag for images, see {{trimming}}

This template trims leading and trailing (but not interior) whitespace from a string. The string should be passed as the first unnamed parameter. The parameter must be named |1= if its value contains a = character.

You may substitute this template—that is, if this template is used as {{subst:trim}}, the resulting wikicode is "clean".

Contents

  • 1 Usage
  • 2 Examples
  • 3 Template data
  • 4 See also

Usage

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{{trim|text}} = text with any leading or trailing whitespace removed.

Examples

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  • "{{trim| abc}}" produces "abc"
  • "{{trim|xyz }}" produces "xyz"
  • "{{trim| abc xyz }}" produces "abc xyz"

Template data

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Trim in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Trim

The template trims whitespace from a string.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
String1

The string to be trimmed of whitespace

Stringrequired

See also

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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>.
{{string split}} Extract a short string from a long string.
{{first word}} Trim down to the first space.
{{remove first word}} Remove anything before the first space.
{{last word}} Trim down from the last space.
{{remove last word}} Remove anything after the last space.
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
{{str startswith}}
{{str endswith}}
Check if a string starts or ends with a given string.
{{str find}}, {{strfind short}} Returns the numerical ___location of a given string in a string.
{{str count}} Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string.
{{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
  • Module:String, Module:String2, Module:Ustring, Module:Text, wikitext handling: modules that together contain most necessary string functions.
  • Magic words: About {{padleft:|}}, {{lc:|}}, {{formatnum:|}} etc.
  • ParserFunctions: About {{#titleparts:|}}, {{#expr:|}}, {{#ifeq:|}}, etc.
  • Category:String manipulation templates
    • Commons
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    • Meta-Wiki
    • Wikidata
  • Category:Modules that manipulate strings
  • The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Trim/doc. (edit | history)
    Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
    Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.
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    Last edited on 26 October 2022, at 14:00

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