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Return a reference providing non&hyphen;modifiable access to the string value of this object&period; The behavior is undefined unless `type() &equals;&equals; ball&colon;&colon;UserFieldType&colon;&colon;e&lowbar;STRING`&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;ball&lowbar;userfieldvalue&period;h&gt;`

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