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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_view object of the indicated return type. (See the "User‐Defined Literals" section in the component‐level documentation.)

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_stringview.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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std::string_view
operator""_sv(
    char const* characterString,
    std::size_t length);
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== Description

Example: ` using namespace bsl::string_view_literals; bsl::string_view sv1 = "1230abc"; bsl::string_view sv2 = "1230abc"_sv; assert(3 == sv1.size()); assert(7 == sv2.size());

bsl::wstring_view sv3 = L"1230abc"_sv; assert(7 == sv3.size()); `


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