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Return the address of the first character of the string bound to this string reference such that `[data() .. data()+length())]` is a valid half‐open range of characters. Note that the range of characters might not be null‐terminated and may contain embedded null characters.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_stringref.h>`

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CHAR_TYPE const*
data() const;
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