Subscripting Strings in django templates

Question

Is it possible to subscript strings in django templates ?

What i mean is doing

print "hello"[:3]
=> hel

in django templates.

Writing {{ stringVar[:10] }} throws

TemplateSyntaxError: Could not parse the remainder: '[:10]'  from 'stringVar[:10]'

Incidentally the answer was an inbuilt filter. So I think I will remove the sentence "Is there an inbuilt way to do this other than writing filters ?" — Gautam
– Gautam, Commented Dec 2, 2011 at 8:13

jro · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-02 08:03:34Z

7

You can, but the syntax is slightly different as what you're used to. Use slice:

{{ stringVar|slice:":2" }}

This will give you the first 2 elements from the list (or the first two chars from a string).

answered Dec 2, 2011 at 8:03

jro

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