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Return the non‐modifiable string representation corresponding to the specified `type`, if it exists, and a unique (error) string otherwise. The string representation of `type` matches its corresponding enumerator name with the `e_` prefix elided.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdld_datum.h>`

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static
char const*
dataTypeToAscii(xref:BloombergLP/bdld/Datum/DataType.adoc[DataType] type);
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== Description

For example: ` bsl::cout << bdld::Datum::dataTypeToAscii(bdld::Datum::e_NIL); ` will print the following on standard output: ` NIL ` Note that specifying a `type` that does not match any of the enumerators will result in a string representation that is distinct from any of those corresponding to the enumerators, but is otherwise unspecified.


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