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Return how many bytes can be read before underflow may return eof.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlde_utf8checkinginstreambufwrapper.h>`

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virtual
std::streamsize
showmanyc() override;
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== Description

Return the number of bytes that are guaranteed that can be read before `underflow` returns `eof`. If the object is not in a valid state, ‐1 will be returned. Note that often, the actual number of bytes that can be read will be much greater than the value returned by this function.

== Return Value

number of bytes guaranteed readable before `underflow` may return `eof`, or ‐1 if this object is not in a valid state


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