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Write the FIX representation of the specified `object` to the specified `buffer` of the specified `bufferLength` (in bytes), truncating (if necessary) to `bufferLength`. Optionally specify a `configuration` to affect the format of the generated string. If `configuration` is not supplied, the process‐wide default value `FixUtilConfiguration::defaultConfiguration()` is used. Return the number of characters in the formatted string before truncation (not counting a null terminator). If `bufferLength` indicates sufficient capacity, `buffer` is null terminated. The behavior is undefined unless `0 <= bufferLength`. Note that a buffer of size `k_MAX_STRLEN + 1` is large enough to hold any string generated by this component (counting a null terminator, if any).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlt_fixutil.h>`

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static
int
generate(
    char* buffer,
    int bufferLength,
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