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Return `true` if the long `stdout` output format is in use.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_asyncfileobserver.h>`

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bool
isStdoutLoggingPrefixEnabled() const;
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== Description

Return `true` if this async file observer uses the long output format when writing to `stdout`, and `false` otherwise (in which case the default short output format is used). See `enableStdoutLoggingPrefix` and `disableStdoutLoggingPrefix`.

== Return Value

`true` if the long `stdout` format is used, and `false` otherwise


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