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Return whether an alternative processing flag was parsed.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslfmt_formatspecificationparser.h>`

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constexpr
bool
alternativeFlag() const;
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== Description

Return true if parsing detected an alternative processing flag in the specification, otherwise return false. If `parse` has not previously been called throw a `format_error` exception.

== Return Value

`true` if the alternative flag was present, else `false`


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