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Parse the front character of the specified `spec`. If that character matches any of those recognized by this specifier formatter, increment `d_totalWidth`, pop the first character off of `spec` and return `true`, otherwise return `false`. The behavior is undefined if `*spec` is empty.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlt_literal_specifierformatter.h>`

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constexpr
bool
parseNextSpecifier(xref:BloombergLP/bdlt/Literal_SpecifierFormatter.adoc[StringView]* spec);
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