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Return a reference providing non‐modifiable access to the string value of this object. The behavior is undefined unless `type() == ball::UserFieldType::e_STRING`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_userfieldvalue.h>`

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xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string] const&
theString() const;
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