After the processing described in the previous section, we've now got full details of what we need to output stored in the profile_container on a symbol-by-symbol basis. To produce output, we need to replay that data and format it suitably.

opreport first asks the profile_container for a symbol_collection (this is also where thresholding happens). This is sorted, then a opreport_formatter is initialised. This object initialises a set of field formatters as requested. Then opreport_formatter::output() is called. This iterates through the (sorted) symbol_collection; for each entry, the selected fields (as set by the format_flags options) are output by calling the field formatters, with the symbol_entry passed in.