Difference between revisions of "Template:ExtractFirstPageNumber"
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| − | Use this template to extract the first page number from a page-page string. For instance, if <code><nowiki> | + | 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. | ||
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-->|<!-- separator is found: extract first page | -->|<!-- separator is found: extract first page | ||
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Revision as of 05:20, 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.
