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This class is an intermediate link between `bslstl::StringRef` used in BDE and `bsl::string_view` and is kept only for compatibility with legacy code.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_stringrefdata.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
template<class CHAR_TYPE>
class StringRefData
    : public bsl::basic_string_view<CHAR_TYPE>
----

== Base Classes

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|===
| Name| Description
| `bsl::basic_string_view<CHAR_TYPE>`
| A non‐owning reference to a string.
|===

== Type Aliases

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|===
| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefData-04/size_type.adoc[`size_type`] 
| This `typedef` is an alias to `std::size_t`.
|===


== Member Functions

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|===
| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefData-04/2constructor-02.adoc[`StringRefData`]         [.small]#[constructor]#
| Constructors
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefData-04/2conversion.adoc[`operator BloombergLP::bslmf::NestedTraitDeclaration<StringRefData, is_trivially_copyable>`] 
| Nested trait declaration for `bsl::is_trivially_copyable`.
|===


== Static Member Functions

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|===
| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefData-04/cStringLength.adoc[`cStringLength`] 
| Return the number of `CHAR_TYPE` characters in the specified null‐terminated `data` string, up to but not including the terminal null value.
|===


== Derived Classes

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|===
| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefImp-0c.adoc[`StringRefImp`] 
| Provide a non‐owning reference to a contiguous character sequence.
|===


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