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Return the number of characters remaining to be read&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlsb&lowbar;fixedmeminput&period;h&gt;`

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std::size&lowbar;t
length() const;
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== Description

Return the number of characters that can be successfully read from this stream buffer before reading `traits&lowbar;type&colon;&colon;eof()` &hyphen;&hyphen; i&period;e&period;, the number of characters between the current read position and the end of this buffer&period;

== Return Value

number of characters between the current read position and the end of this buffer


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