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Parse a decimal floating point format string using the iterator‐range from the specified `context` and if successful load the results into this object as well as set its status to `e_PARSED`; otherwise, if the format specification denoted by the `context` iterator‐range is not a valid decimal floating point format specification throw a `bsl::format_error` exception.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdldfp_decimal.h>`

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template<class t_PARSE_CONTEXT>
constexpr
void
parse(t_PARSE_CONTEXT* context);
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