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Template:Century name from decade or year/doc

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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

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  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

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  • {{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

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  • {{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

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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

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TemplateData

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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 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

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