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Return the enumerator representing the requested sign&hyphen;treatment option unless the status is not at least `e&lowbar;STATE&lowbar;PARSED` in which case throw a `bsl&colon;&colon;format&lowbar;error` exception indicating that error&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslfmt&lowbar;standardformatspecification&period;h&gt;`

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constexpr
xref:BloombergLP/bslfmt/FormatSpecificationParserEnums/Sign.adoc[StandardFormatSpecification&lt;t&lowbar;CHAR&gt;::Sign]
sign() const;
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