Template:Century name from decade or year
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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
TemplateData
TemplateData for Century name from decade or year
<templatedata> { "params": { "1": { "label": "Year or decade", "description": "a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') ", "type": "number", "default": "" }, "2": { "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'", "type": "string", "default": "" }, "nomatch": { "label": "No match text", "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" } }, "description": "Returns the name of the century for a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade." } </templatedata>
See also
- Template:Title year
- Template:Title year range
- Template:Title decade
- Template:Century name from title year
- Template:Century name from title decade
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