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Load the FIX representation of the specified `object` into the specified `string`&period; Optionally specify a `configuration` to affect the format of the generated string&period; If `configuration` is not supplied, the process&hyphen;wide default value `FixUtilConfiguration&colon;&colon;defaultConfiguration()` is used&period; Return the number of characters in the formatted string&period; The previous contents of `string` (if any) are discarded&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlt&lowbar;fixutil&period;h&gt;`

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static
int
generate(
    std::pmr::string* string,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlt/Date.adoc[Date] const& object);
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