**CIGAL Reference Manual, Chapter 2 (Commands): FTYPE**
===== FTYPE -- Formatted version of the TYPE command =====
**        usage: ftype fmtstring varb1 varb2 ...**

The FTYPE command is an alternative form of the TYPE command -- the only
difference being that TYPE prints its output in a standardized format,
whereas with FTYPE you can format the output any way you like.  To do this,
the first argument to FTYPE must be a format command string (FMTSTRING),
which acts as a template specifying how to display each of the remaining
arguments (VARB1 - VARBn).

To do the format conversions, FTYPE calls the FORMAT function (see
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter3:format|FORMAT(3)]]).  For variables with many elements, FORMAT is called repeatedly
until all of the data values have been printed.

For a description of the syntax of the format string, see [[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter3:format|FORMAT(3)]].
For more information, see [[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter2:type|TYPE(2)]].

**See Also:**\\
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter3:format|FORMAT(3)]], 
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter2:type|TYPE(2)]]

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