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Parse the string contained by the specified input/output `parseContext` to extract the items indicated by the specified `sections`, update this object with the parsing result and update the iterator held by `parseContext` to point to the start of the unparsed section of the string. In the event of an error throw a `format_error` exception.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslfmt_formatspecificationparser.h>`

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template<class t_PARSE_CONTEXT>
constexpr
void
parse(
    t_PARSE_CONTEXT* parseContext,
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