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Process the specified character data while decoding.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_decoder.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
virtual
int
addCharacters(
    char const* chars,
    std::size_t length,
    xref:BloombergLP/balxml/Decoder.adoc[Decoder]* decoder) override;
----

== Return Value

0 on success, and a non‐zero value otherwise

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *chars*
| character data to process
| *length*
| number of characters in `chars`
| *decoder*
| decoder driving the parse
|===


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