:man_page: bson_decimal128_from_string

bson_decimal128_from_string()
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Synopsis
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.. code-block:: c

  bool
  bson_decimal128_from_string (const char *string, bson_decimal128_t *dec);

Parameters
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* ``string``: A string containing ASCII encoded Decimal128.
* ``dec``: A :symbol:`bson_decimal128_t`.

Description
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Parses the string containing ascii encoded decimal128 and initialize the bytes in ``decimal128``.

Example
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.. code-block:: c

  bson_decimal128_t dec;
  bson_decimal128_from_string ("1.00", &dec);

