# Expression Formatting

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-formatting/32182>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-formatting/32182 "2020-02-12T17:36:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jaspinall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jaspinall](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jaspinall)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-formatting/32182/1 "2020-02-12T17:36:05Z")

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Hello There:

I have a Label with it’s text property binding linked to an expression as follows:

"Thermocouple Temp: " + tag({view.params.TagPath} + “/Temperatures/Thermocouple1/EU”) + " " + tag({view.params.TagPath} + “/Temperatures/Thermocouple1/EU.EngUnit”)

This works fine and displays the text as, “Thermocouple Temp: 123.12345 DegC” for example.

However, i want to format the value returned to only two decimal places so it would display 123.12 instead.

Would anyone know how I can accomplish this? It’s difficult because my expression returns both text and numbers.

Thank you

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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-formatting/32182/2 "2020-02-12T17:42:15Z")

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```java
"Thermocouple Temp: "
+ numberFormat(tag({view.params.TagPath} + "/Temperatures/Thermocouple1/EU"), '#,##0.00')
+ " " + tag({view.params.TagPath} + "/Temperatures/Thermocouple1/EU.EngUnit")

```

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**Author:** ![jaspinall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jaspinall](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jaspinall)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-formatting/32182/3 "2020-02-12T17:44:39Z")

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> [@witman](#):
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> '#,##0.00')

Worked. Thank you for this.