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Help:Lingua Functions

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Overview

Lingua has a set of functions and special variable:
Function/Variable Comment Example
Arguments Get the associative array (key/value pairs) for the arguments to the template. You may modify this result. This can be useful to rename template argument names, but remain compatible with existing callers. Arguments["NewName"] = Arguments["OldName"]

String functions

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Length(text)

Interprets arg as a string

Substring()

Print(text)

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Display(text)

same as print

Collection functions

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Count(collection)

Date and Time Functions

GetDate()

AddMonths()

AddSeconds()

AddYears()

Now()

UtcNow()

DayOfWeek()

Day()

Hour()

Minute()

Month()

Second()

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Year()

Math Functions

Random(number)

Round(number)

RoundUp(number)

Ceiling
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RoundDown(number)

floor

Miscellaneous

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IsOpen(hourString, checkDate)

is this thing open on checkDate?
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GetPageInfo(title)

parse a title into Name, Namespace, Region, Url, and Anchor values (as an assoc array)
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GetFunctionList()

get a collection of all of the function names currently known by Lingua. This is useful for docs I hope.
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IfNotEmpty(item, a, b)

if item is not empty, return a, else return b. If b isn’t passed, return empty string.
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Choose(item,a1,a2,a3...)

Choose the option closest to the numeric value of item. So the “plural” thing is now:
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