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Return an iterator referring to the first character in this modifiable string (or the past&hyphen;the&hyphen;end iterator if this string is empty)&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslstl&lowbar;string&period;h&gt;`

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begin() noexcept;
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