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.

Examples ¶

Format the entry count with parentheses and pad with zeros to 6 digits:

<$mt:EntryCommentCount sprintf="(%.6d)"$>

Result for an entry with 23 comments:

(000023)

Format the month number with a proceeding 0 if number is a single digit:

<$mt:Var name="month_number" value="2"$>
<$mt:Var name="month_number" sprintf="%02d"$>

Output for month “2” (February):

02

Convert the value of TagName into a floating point number with a precision of 2:

<$mt:TagName sprintf="%.2f"$>

Related ¶

• Guide to the printf format
• More examples of sprintf:
  • sprintf in Perl
  • sprintf in PHP.