Template:Title year range/sandbox
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Extracts a year range from a page title.
Explanation
A "year range" is a four-digit number followed by an endash with no spaces, and then two or four digits: YYYY–YY or YYYY–YYYY.
Note that separator must be an endash: –
The template will not recognise other separators, such as
Examples of valid year ranges
- 1651–1652
- 1427–1509
- 1706–1707
- 1706–07
- 1924–29
- 1806–2014
Examples of invalid year ranges
- 1725-34
(not an endash) - 1966—67 (not an endash)
- 601–08 (leading year is only 3 digits)
- 45025–34 (five digits in leading year, will be read as 5025–34)
Usage
{{Title year range}}
or
{{Title year range|match|nomatch|page=}}
or
{{Title year range|match=|nomatch=|page=}}
TemplateData
TemplateData for Title year range
Extracts a year ranges from the current page title. All parameters are optional.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match Instance | 1 match | If multiple year ranges are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1.
| Number | optional |
| No match text | 2 nomatch | If no year range is found, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank. | String | optional |
| Override page title | page | Specified a page title to use other than the current page. If left blank, the template will use the title of the current page
| Page name | optional |
See also
- Template:Title year
- Template:Title year+1
- Template:Title year-1
- Template:Title year range
- Template:Title year2range
- Template:Title year2range+1
- Template:Title year2range-1
- Template:Title monthname
- Template:Title decade
- Template:Title century
- Template:Title number
- Template:Make YYYY–YY
- Template:Century name from title year
- Template:Century name from title decade
- Template:Century name from decade or year