Template:Str sub long

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This template was ported from an old revision of a template from Wikipedia. It was originally at Template:Str sub long. The original authors of this template are shown on the template's edit history page.
This template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, originally from Template:Str sub long/doc. The original authors of the documentation are shown on the documentation's edit history page.
Wikipedia's text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Usage

{{Str sub long |text|start|length}} = Substring of text starting at start and containing length characters. Base 0: the first character is numbered 0, and so on, e.g. {{str sub long|20090624130510|8|2}} returns the 2 characters starting at the 9th, i.e. "13"

start + length must be less than 100. The template operates on an extended character set.

Template:Str character set documentation, plus accented letters and other diacritics.

Limitations

A string is limited to 500 total characters, but the substring can only span the first 100 characters. The presence of certain characters in the input may cause unexpected results, so {{Str_sub/any}} should be used to handle any possible character. Otherwise, there can be problems with some special characters. For example, {{Str sub long|abc%def|2|3}} → c%d works as desired, whereas if the output string contains any of :;*# the results are not as desired:
{{Str sub/any|abc:def|2|3}} → Template:Str sub/any
{{Str sub long|abc:def|2|3}} → c

d

{{Str sub long|abc;def|2|3}} → c

d

{{Str sub long|abc*def|2|3}} → c

• d
  

{{Str sub long|abc#def|2|3}} → c

1. d

See also

• {{Str sub}}
• {{Str sub long}} - allows 100 characters, but not ":" or ";" or "*"
• {{Str sub/any}}  - allows any character, such as ":" or ";" or "*" or "#"
• Template:String templates See also

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