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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::defaultAllocator()` to supply memory. (See the "User‐Defined Literals" 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; bsl::string str1 = "1230abc"; bsl::string str2 = "1230abc"_s; assert(3 == str1.size()); assert(7 == str2.size());

bsl::wstring str3 = L"1230abc"_s; assert(7 == str3.size()); `


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