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Return a pointer to the parsed filler character storage&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslfmt&lowbar;standardformatspecification&period;h&gt;`

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constexpr
t&lowbar;CHAR const*
filler() const;
----

== Description

Return a pointer to the character array that stores the parsed filler character that may be a multibyte code point or just a single character unless the status is not `e&lowbar;STATE&lowbar;PARSED` or `e&lowbar;STATE&lowbar;POSTPROCESSED` in which case throw a `bsl&colon;&colon;format&lowbar;error` exception indicating that error&period; See also `numFillerCharacters()` that provides the number of characters in the array returned by this function (at least one)&period;

== Return Value

a pointer to the character array storing the parsed filler


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