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Read the specified `length` number of characters into the specified `destination`. Return the number of characters successfully read. The behavior is undefined unless `0 <= length`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlsb_fixedmeminstreambuf.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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virtual
std::streamsize
xsgetn(
    char_type* destination,
    std::streamsize length) override;
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