This is the {{str letter}} meta-template.

It takes a string as parameter, and returns its length of preceding letters.

Examples

If the parameter is empty or undefined it is considered to be of zero length:

{{str letter}} returns 0
{{str letter|}} returns 0
{{str letter| }} returns 0

The count is interrupted by numbers, symbols, and punctuation:

{{str letter|12345}} returns 0
{{str letter|12345abc}} returns 0
{{str letter|abcdef?}} returns 6
{{str letter|abc def}} returns 3
{{str letter|ABcD123}} returns 4
{{str letter|abc, def}} returns 3
{{str letter|abc(def)}} returns 3
{{str letter|abc xyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}} returns 3
{{str letter|ÁbČĐÈęFğ}} returns 8
{{str letter|NR<ref>a reference</ref>}} returns 2
{{str letter|abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx}} returns 24
{{str letter|abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}} returns 26

See also

References

  1. a reference