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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

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

((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

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

((Century name from decade))
((Century name from year))

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Returns the name of the century for a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Year or decade	`1`	a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') Default	Number	optional
dash	`2`	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	String	optional
No match text	`nomatch`	If the input is not a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank.	String	optional

((trim))	Trim any leading or trailing whitespace
((str letter/trim))	Trim down to the beginning letters.
((str number/trim))	Trim down to the beginning numbers.
((trim brackets))	Trim any leading or trailing square brackets.
((trim quotes))	Trim leading or trailing matching quotes.
((trim leading))	Trim up to six instances of specified <prefix>.

((string split))	Extract a short string from a long string.
((first word))	Trim down to the first space.
((remove first word))	Remove anything before the first space.
((last word))	Trim down from the last space.
((remove last word))	Remove anything after the last space.

Select/remove specific item from string

((delink)), ((trim brackets))	Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode); all or outer only.
((Plain text))	Removes wikicode (formatting and brackets)
((PAGENAMEBASE))	Trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation).
((title disambig text))	Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation).
((WikiProjectbasename))	Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename.

((ship prefix))	Returns the length of a ship's name prefix, if listed (ship names).
((title year))	Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any.
((title decade))	Returns the 4-digit decade (e.g. "1740s") from a pagename, if any.
((title number))	Returns any number from a pagename.

Insertion, replacement and length

((loop))	Repeat character string a specified number of times.
((replace))	Returns the string, after replacing all occurrences of a specified string with another string.
((str rep))	Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string.
((digits))	Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9
((Nowiki))	Displays wikitext as plain text.

((str len))	Returns a string's length.
((str ≥ len))	Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.
((str ≤ len))	Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.
((str ≠ len))	Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.

Analysis and searching

((str startswith)) ((str endswith))	Check if a string starts or ends with a given string.
((str find)), ((strfind short))	Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
((in string))	Returns optional string when given string is not found
((str count))	Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string.

((a or an))	Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.
((Array))	Array manipulation and retrieval.
((Isnumeric))	Returns number when true, blank when not numeric.
((str letter))	Returns the number of letters that begin a string.
((str number))	Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.

Modules and built-in functions
Module:String, Module:String2, Module:Ustring, Module:Text, wikitext handling: modules that together contain most necessary string functions. Magic words: About `((padleft:\|))`, `((lc:\|))`, `((formatnum:\|))` etc. ParserFunctions: About `((#titleparts:\|)), ((#expr:\|)), ((#ifeq:\|)),` etc.

Category:String manipulation templates

Category:String manipulating modules

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