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Write the specified `bsl::string` `value` to the specified output `stream`, and return a reference to `stream`. The optionally specified `version` is ignored. If `stream` is initially invalid, this operation has no effect. See the `bslx` package‐level documentation for more information on BDEX streaming of value‐semantic types and containers.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslx_outstreamfunctions.h>`

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template<class STREAM>
STREAM&
bdexStreamOut(
    STREAM& stream,
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string] const& value,
    int version = 0);
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