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Parse a format string using the iterator‐range from the specified `context` assuming it is a Standard format specification for arguments of the specified `category` and if successful update this object with the parsing result, as well as set the status to `e_PARSED`; otherwise, if the format specification denoted by the `context` iterator‐range is not a valid Standard format specification for arguments of category `category` throw a `bsl::format_error` exception.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslfmt_standardformatspecification.h>`

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template<class t_PARSE_CONTEXT>
constexpr
void
parse(
    t_PARSE_CONTEXT* context,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslfmt/StandardFormatSpecification/Category.adoc[Category] category);
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