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Convert a character sequence of the specified `length` excluding the terminating null character starting at the beginning of the specified `characterString` to a string object of the indicated return type. Use the `bslma::Default::globalAllocator()` to supply memory. (See the "Memory Allocation For a File‐Scope Strings" section in the component‐level documentation.)

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

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operator""_S(
    char const* characterString,
    std::size_t length);
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== Description

Example: ` using namespace bsl::string_literals; static const bsl::string g_str1 = "1230abc"_S; static const bsl::wstring g_str2 = L"1230abc"_S; `


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