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Append the specified `rhs` to this string, and return a reference providing modifiable access to this string.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

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template<class STRING_VIEW_LIKE_TYPE>
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operator+=(STRING_VIEW_LIKE_TYPE const& rhs);
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