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title: "What is a formatter?"  
description: "What is a formatter?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2013-12-18  
updated: 2020-09-18  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1840/what-is-a-formatter  
category: "c#"  
tags: ["c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a formatter?

A formatter is an object that is responsible for encoding and serializing data into messages on one end, and deserializing and decoding messages into data on the other end.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

A formatter is an object that is responsible for encoding and serializing data into messages on one end, and deserializing and decoding messages into data on the other end.


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