[#BloombergLP-bslx-GenericOutStream-putString] = xref:BloombergLP.adoc[BloombergLP]::xref:BloombergLP/bslx.adoc[bslx]::xref:BloombergLP/bslx/GenericOutStream.adoc[GenericOutStream]::putString :relfileprefix: ../../../ :mrdocs: Write to the stream supplied at construction the length of the specified `value` (see `putLength`) and an array of one‐byte, two's complement unsigned integers comprised of the least‐significant one byte of each character in the `value`, and return a reference to this stream. If this stream is initially invalid, this operation has no effect. == Synopsis Declared in `<bslx_genericoutstream.h>` [source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"] ---- xref:BloombergLP/bslx/GenericOutStream.adoc[GenericOutStream<STREAMBUF>]& putString(xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string] const& value); ---- [.small]#Created with https://www.mrdocs.com[MrDocs]#