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title: "finish"
sidebar_label: "finish"
description: "Kotlin binding reference: finish."
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//[clika-runtime](../../../index.md)/[io.clika.runtime](../index.md)/[StreamingDecoder](index.md)/[finish](finish.md)

# finish

[common]\
fun [finish](finish.md)(): [String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/core/kotlin-stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)

Flush what is decoded but not yet emitted (a trailing incomplete sequence as is) and reset.