{% comment %} Renders the name of a single semester. Expects 'semester' as a parameter. {% endcomment %} {% assign nosummer = semester | remove: "SS" %} {% assign semesteryear = nosummer | remove: "WS" %} <!-- string.contains doesn't work, neither does substring --> {% if nosummer == semester %} Winter {% else %} Summer {% endif %} 20{{semesteryear}}