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Return a string reference to the substring of the specified `string` as described by the specified `span`, meaning the substring starting at the `span.position()` index in `string` and having `span.length()` characters. The behavior is undefined unless `span.position() <= string.length()` and `span.position() + span.length() <= string.length()`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_indexspanstringutil.h>`

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static
std::string_view
bind(
    std::string_view const& string,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan.adoc[IndexSpan] const& span);
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