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Return the 0‐based position in the specified `path` of the character following the root. Note that a return value of 0 indicates a relative path. See []and Performance). See also  for the definition of root.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdls_pathutil.h>`

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static
int
getRootEnd(std::string_view const& path);
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