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Assign this ref to the specified `data` of the specified `length`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_stringref.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
void
assign(
    CHAR_TYPE const* data,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefImp-0c/size_type.adoc[size_type] length);
----

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *data*
| address of the character sequence to reference
| *length*
| number of characters in the sequence
|===


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