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Create string representation of the specified `value`, customized in accordance with the requested format and the specified `formatContext`, and copy it to the output that the output iterator of the `formatContext` points to. The behavior is undefined unless `t_FORMAT_CONTEXT` is either `std::format_context` if that is supported, or otherwise `bslfmt::format_context`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdldfp_decimal.h>`

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template<class t_FORMAT_CONTEXT>
t_FORMAT_CONTEXT::iterator
format(
    t_VALUE const& value,
    t_FORMAT_CONTEXT& formatContext) const;
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