Filters are used to modify or to apply some special formatting rules to variables in expressions. Filters are separated from other parts of an expression by vertical line. Several filters can be combined into a «pipe»:

{$UserName|trim|capitalize}

In the example above, trim filter first removes spaces from the begin and end of the $UserName variable and then capitalize filter converts first letter to uppercase. In the compiled PHP file we will get something like this:

 <?php echo ucfirst(trim($UserName)); ?>

Filters may also require additional information called parameters. The syntax for specifying parameters is:

{$UserName|default:"anonymous"}

If no value is specified for the UserName variable, then the value of «anonymous» is used. A parameter may be either a number constant, a string constant, or a variable.

Multiple parameters can be specified separated by commas:

{$value|number:2, '. ', ' '}

Here is an example of using of a variable as a filter parameter:

<? $size = 10; ?>
<pre>{$PlainText|wordwrap:$size}</pre>

In most cases macro filters are just wrappers for PHP function like trim, strtoupper, number_format etc. Default macro filters can be found in limb/macro/src/filter folder.