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Return a pointer to the character array that stores the parsed filler character that may be a multibyte code point or just a single character unless the status is not `e_STATE_PARSED` or `e_STATE_POSTPROCESSED` in which case throw a `bsl::format_error` exception indicating that error. See also `numFillerCharacters()` that provides the number of characters in the array returned by this function (at least one).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslfmt_standardformatspecification.h>`

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constexpr
t_CHAR const*
filler() const;
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