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We present a variation-of-constants formula for functional differential equations of the form $$\dot{y}=ℒ\left(t\right)y_t+f(y_t,t),y_{t_0}=\varphi ,$$ where $ℒ$ is a bounded linear operator and $\varphi$ is a regulated function. Unlike the result by G. Shanholt (1972), where the functions involved are continuous, the novelty here is that the application $t\mapsto f(y_t,t)$ is Kurzweil integrable with $t$ in an interval of $ℝ$, for each regulated function $y$. This means that $t\mapsto f(y_t,t)$ may admit not only many discontinuities, but it can also be highly oscillating and yet, we are able to obtain...