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Return the enumerator representing the requested sign‐treatment option unless the status is not at least `e_STATE_PARSED` in which case throw a `bsl::format_error` exception indicating that error.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslfmt_standardformatspecification.h>`

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constexpr
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sign() const;
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