Suggestions on pattern to dump a data structure to a file

If we have a data structure which we will need to output to a file and we
don't know in advance which or how many file formats we will need to
support, what's the best design pattern to implement the routines to dump
the data to a file?


Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel
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