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Process the specified character data `chars` of the specified `length` while decoding a choice element. Return 0 on success and a non‐zero value if invalid characters are present.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_decoder.h>`

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virtual
int
addCharacters(
    char const* chars,
    std::size_t length,
    xref:BloombergLP/balxml/Decoder.adoc[Decoder]* decoder) override;
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