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Template:Century name from decade or year

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When supplied with a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, returns the name of the century.

Mostly used in categorisation.

Parameters

The first parameter is required: either a 1-, 2-, 3-, or 4-digit year (e.g. 61, 905, 1839) or a 2-, 3-, or 4--digit decade (e.g. 60s, 900s, 1830s)
The second parameter is optional. The single word "dash" changes the output from "nth century" to "nth-century"
An optional "nomatch" parameter may be used to specify text to be return if the input cannot be processed. Default behaviour is return an empty string if there is no match

Usage

{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|dash}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|dash}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|nomatch=FAIL}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|dash|nomatch=FAIL}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|nomatch=FAIL}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|dash|nomatch=FAIL}}

Examples

{{Century name from decade or year|8}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|63}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|421}} → 5th century
{{Century name from decade or year|1707}} → 18th century
{{Century name from decade or year|1514|dash}} → 16th-century
{{Century name from decade or year|0s}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|40s}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|550s}} → 6th century
{{Century name from decade or year|1920s}} → 20th century
{{Century name from decade or year|2030s|dash}} → 21st-century

Errors

Empty or inappropriate parameters produce no output, unless the "nomatch" paremeter is set.

{{Century name from decade or year}} →
{{Century name from decade or year|7}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|123abc}} →
{{Century name from decade or year|French flying flamingoes flounce furiously}} →

With "nomatch"

{{Century name from decade or year|nomatch=FAILED}} → FAILED
{{Century name from decade or year|7|nomatch=Aaaaaaaaaargh}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|123abc|nomatch=garbage input}} → garbage input
{{Century name from decade or year|Fastidious French flying flamingoes flounce furiously|nomatch=NOMATCH}} → NOMATCH

Redirects

{{Century name from decade}}
{{Century name from year}}

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Century name from decade or year

Returns the name of the century for a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Year or decade	`1`	a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') Default	Number	optional
dash	`2`	If this parameter is dash, then the century number is followed by a dash rather than a space, i.e. '16th-century' instead of the default '16th century' Default	String	optional
No match text	`nomatch`	If the input is not a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank.	String	optional

See also

Template:Title year

Template:Title year+1

Template:Title year-1

Template:Title year range

Template:Title year2range

Template:Title year2range+1

Template:Title year2range-1

Template:Title monthname

Template:Title decade

Template:Title century

Template:Title number

Template:Make YYYY–YY

Template:Century name from title year

Template:Century name from title decade

Template:Century name from decade or year

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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); allorouter 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).
{{WikiProjectbasename}}	Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename.

{{ship prefix}}	Returns the length of a ship's name prefix, if listed (ship names).
{{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.

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.
{{in string}}	Returns optional string when given string is not found
{{str count}}	Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string.
{{reSwitch}}	Match one or multiple patterns with a variety of possible outputs.

{{a or an}}	Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.
{{Array}}	Array manipulation and retrieval.
{{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

Category:String manipulating modules

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