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Decode the specified `object` of parameterized `TYPE` from the file with the specified `filename`. Return 0 on success, and a non‐zero value otherwise. A compilation error will result unless `TYPE` conforms to the requirements of a bdlat sequence or choice, as described in `bdlat_sequencefunctions` and `bdlat_choicefunctions`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_decoder.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
int
decode(
    char const* filename,
    TYPE* object);
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