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Return the position of the _first_ occurrence of a character _not_ belonging to the specified `characters`, if such an occurrence can be found in the specified `string` (on or _after_ the optionally specified `position` if such a `position` is specified), and return `k_NPOS` otherwise.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_stringrefutil.h>`

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static
xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/StringRefUtil/size_type.adoc[size_type]
findFirstNotOf(
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRef.adoc[bslstl::StringRef] const& string,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRef.adoc[bslstl::StringRef] const& characters,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/StringRefUtil/size_type.adoc[size_type] position = 0u);
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