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-%]<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE format [% tt_end_tag %]
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The format plugin constructs sub-routines which format text according to
a printf()-like format string.
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Andy Wardley &lt;abw@wardley.org&gt;
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2.7, distributed as part of the
Template Toolkit version 2.19, released on 27 April 2007.
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-%]<pre>  Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.</pre>
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This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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