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Load to the specified `value` the UTF‐8 codepoint sequence equivalent to the specified (JSON) `string` (see []Strings)). Return 0 on success and a non‐zero value otherwise. Optionally specify `flags` to request variances from certain rules of JSON decoding (see ).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdljsn_stringutil.h>`

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static
int
readString(
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* value,
    std::string_view const& string,
    int flags = e_NONE);
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