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Write the specified `length` characters at the specified address `s` to this buffer. Return the number of characters written, which is either `length` or the distance from the current write position to the end of the write buffer, whichever is smaller, and move the write cursor position by this amount.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlsb_fixedmemoutput.h>`

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std::streamsize
sputn(
    char const* s,
    std::streamsize length);
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