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Reset this string to an empty value. Note that the capacity may change (or not if `BASIC_STRING_DEALLOCATE_IN_CLEAR` is `false`). Note that the Standard doesn't allow to reduce capacity on `clear`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

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void
clear() noexcept;
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