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Convert the string referred to by the specified `viewIn` from `wchar_t` to `char` and return the resulting `bsl::string` by value. The behavior is undefined unless all of the `wchar_t` values in `viewIn` are ascii.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlt_formattestutil.h>`

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