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Create a `Printer` that formats output to the specified stream.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslim_printer.h>`

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Printer(
    std::ostream* stream,
    int level,
    int spacesPerLevel);
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== Description

Create a `Printer` object that will print to the specified `stream` in a format dictated by the values of the specified `level` and `spacesPerLevel`, as per the contract of the standard BDE `print` method. The behavior is undefined unless `stream` is valid.

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *stream*
| output stream to which this object prints
| *level*
| indentation level as defined by the BDE `print` contract
| *spacesPerLevel*
| spaces per indentation level; negative for single‐line output
|===


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