Movable Type Documentation > Appendices > Appendix: Template Tag Modifiers

sprintf

Type: modifier

A general purpose formatter based on the sprintf command found in a number of programming languages. The value of the attribute should be the format string. The tag value will be passed in as the argument to sprintf.

Example

The following example will convert the value of tagname into a floating point number with a precision of 2.

See also

Tags

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