Re: [Semediawiki-user] SMW: Limit the number of characters to be printed by query

[Ralf <ral...@kr...>]

Well, the "padleft" magic word does not really do what I want.

{{padleft:|40|This is a text.}} results in

  This is a text.This is a text.This is a

Instead the following Parser Function works
  {{#sub:This is a text.|0|4}}
if you set
  $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true;

The #sub is built in ParserFunctions (StringFuncitons not needed).

Ralf

On Tuesday 27 August 2013 Ralf wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> thanks for the hint.
> 
> I found a built-in method by using a magic word:
> 
>   {{padleft:|4|This is a text.}}
> 
> prints just the first 4 characters: "This".
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Formatting
> 
> However, setting the amount of characters to be printed would be a nice
> feature for some Semantic Result Formats in order to avoid the usage of a
> formatting template ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> Ralf