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9.3 Variable Modifiers

A variable can be optionally followed (before the ending variable delimiters) by a modifier indicator and one or more modifiers. The default modifier indicator is the ampersand (&).

The following table summarizes the primary use of various letters and characters as variable modifiers. A detailed description of each modifier follows the summary table. Note that, unless otherwise specified, the use of letters is case-insensitive.

Contents

• 9.3.1 Email Apostrophes
• 9.3.2 List Punctuation
• 9.3.3 Underscore
• 9.3.4 Remove Paragraph Tags - Hyphen
• 9.3.5 Extract File Extension - ^x
• 9.3.6 Repeat - ^R
• 9.3.7 Take Text from Right
• 9.3.8 Alternate Numbering - At Sign
• 9.3.9 Hashtags - #
• 9.3.10 Length Modifier
• 9.3.11 Author Name Modifier - A
• 9.3.12 AM PM - a
• 9.3.13 Base File Name - B
• 9.3.14 Word Demarcation - C
• 9.3.15 Day of Month - dd
• 9.3.16 Day of Week, Abbreviated - EEE
• 9.3.17 Day of Week - EEEE
• 9.3.18 File Name - F
• 9.3.19 Linked Tags - G
• 9.3.20 HTML - H
• 9.3.21 Initial Case - I
• 9.3.22 To Identifier - I
• 9.3.23 Link - J
• 9.3.24 Hour of Day - K
• 9.3.25 Seq Formatting - K
• 9.3.26 Lowercase Modifier - L
• 9.3.27 Month or Minutes - M
• 9.3.28 No Breaks - N
• 9.3.29 Markdown to HTML - O
• 9.3.30 Punctuation Purification - P
• 9.3.31 Quotation Encasing - Q
• 9.3.32 Keep Characters on the Right - R
• 9.3.33 Readable File Name - R
• 9.3.34 Summarize - S
• 9.3.35 HTML to Markdown - T
• 9.3.36 Uppercase Modifier - U
• 9.3.37 Variance - V
• 9.3.38 Wiki-Style Links - W
• 9.3.39 XML - X
• 9.3.40 Year - y
• 9.3.41 Linked Tags - Z
• 9.3.42 Prep for JSON
• 9.3.43 Split Label from Number - >
• 9.3.44 Domain Name from Link - /
• 9.3.45 Formatting String