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Return the number of unknown elements skipped during the last decode.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_decoder.h>`

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int
numUnknownElementsSkipped() const;
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== Description

Return the number of unknown elements that were skipped during the previous decoding operation. Note that unknown elements are skipped only if `true == options()‐>skipUnknownElements()`.

== Return Value

number of unknown elements skipped during the last decode


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