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Return the number of Unicode code points in the specified `string` if `string` contains valid UTF&hyphen;8, with no effect on the specified `invalidString`&period; Otherwise, return a value from the `ErrorStatus` `enum` (which are all negative) and load into `invalidString` the address of the byte after the last valid Unicode code point traversed&period; `string` need not be null&hyphen;terminated and may contain embedded null bytes&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdlde&lowbar;utf8util&period;h&gt;`

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static
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numCodePointsIfValid(
    char const** invalidString,
    std::string&lowbar;view const& string);
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