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Use this template to extract the first page number from a page-page string. For instance, if <code><nowiki>|pages=23-45</nowiki></code>, the template will return 23. If <code><nowiki>|pages=234</nowiki></code>, the template will return 234. If an empty string is passed as a value, an empty string is returned.  
  
 
'''NOTE:''' As any "printing" template, it doesn't store any values anywhere, but merely prints them on the page.
 
'''NOTE:''' As any "printing" template, it doesn't store any values anywhere, but merely prints them on the page.

Revision as of 05:18, 25 June 2017

Use this template to extract the first page number from a page-page string. For instance, if |pages=23-45, the template will return 23. If |pages=234, the template will return 234. If an empty string is passed as a value, an empty string is returned.

NOTE: As any "printing" template, it doesn't store any values anywhere, but merely prints them on the page.

Parameters:

  • |pages= - pages in the "xx-yy" format. E.g. "23-145", "1-34", "vi-ix", etc.