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Flattens the cord into a single array and returns a view of the data.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<absl/strings/cord.h>`

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std::string_view
Flatten();
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== Description

If the cord was already flat, the contents are not modified.

== Return Value

A view of the flattened data.


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