Template:Trunc

Template documentation

Usage

{{Trunc|<string>|<count>}}

Gives the <count> characters from the start of the string.

If <count> is invalid, empty or undefined, it just returns the string.

Examples

• {{Trunc | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | 10 }} → Lorem ipsu
• {{Trunc | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | 1 }} → L
• {{Trunc | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | 0 }} →
• {{Trunc | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | }} → Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
• {{Trunc | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet }} → Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
• {{Trunc | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | foo }} → Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
• {{Trunc | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | 40 }} → Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametLorem ipsum do

See also

• {{Str left}} - which is almost identical.
• {{Str right}} - extract remainder of string
• {{Str rightc}} - extract right-side of string
• {{Str len}} - get numeric length of string (can be over 300 long)