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Assign a new value to this string.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

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template<class STRING_VIEW_LIKE_TYPE>
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assign(STRING_VIEW_LIKE_TYPE const& replacement);
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== Description

Assign to this string the value of the specified `replacement`, and return a reference providing modifiable access to this string. Note that this method has exactly the same behavior as the corresponding `operator=`.

== Return Value

reference providing modifiable access to this string

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *replacement*
| replacement character sequence
|===


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