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Resets this representation to empty, releasing any tree.

== Synopsis

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

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/* implementation-defined */::CordRep*
clear();
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== Return Value

The former tree pointer, or `nullptr` if it held inline bytes.


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