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Return a reference providing non‐modifiable access to the character at the specified `position` in this string. The behavior is undefined unless `position <= length()`. Note that if `position == length()`, a reference to the null‐terminating character is returned.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

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operator[](xref:bsl/basic_string-0ce/size_type.adoc[size_type] position) const;
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