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Examine the front character of the specified `spec`&period; If that character matches any of those recognized by this specifier formatter, perform the sort of output indicated by that character off of `spec` and return `true`, otherwise return `false`&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlt&lowbar;literal&lowbar;specifierformatter&period;h&gt;`

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----
template&lt;class t&lowbar;ITERATOR&gt;
bool
formatNextSpecifier(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlt/Literal_SpecifierFormatter.adoc[StringView]* spec,
    t&lowbar;ITERATOR* outIt) const;
----


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