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"1": {
 
"1": {
 
"label": "Year or decade",
 
"label": "Year or decade",
"description": "a 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') ",
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"description": "a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') ",
 
"type": "number",
 
"type": "number",
 
"default": ""
 
"default": ""
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"2": {
 
"2": {
 
"label": "dash",
 
"label": "dash",
"description": "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'",
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"description": "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'",
 
"type": "string",
 
"type": "string",
 
"default": ""
 
"default": ""
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"nomatch": {
 
"nomatch": {
 
"label": "No match text",
 
"label": "No match text",
"description": "If the input is not a 4-digit year or a 4-digit decade, output the \"nomatch\" value. Defaults to blank.",
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"description": "If the input is not a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, output the \"nomatch\" value. Defaults to blank.",
 
"type": "string"
 
"type": "string"
 
}
 
}
 
},
 
},
"description": "Returns the name of the century for a 4-digit year or a 4-digit decade."
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"description": "Returns the name of the century for a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade."
 
}
 
}
 
</templatedata>
 
</templatedata>

Revision as of 17:01, 8 May 2020

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

Mostly used in categorisation.

Parameters

  1. 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)
  2. The second parameter is optional. The single word "dash" changes the output from "nth century" to "nth-century"
  3. 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

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}}Template:Ordinal 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}}Template:Ordinal 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

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

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

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Year or decade1

a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s')

Default
Numberoptional
dash2

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&nbsp;century'

Default
Stringoptional
No match textnomatch

If the input is not a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank.

Stringoptional

See also