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Return the maximal possible length of this string. Note that requests to create a string longer than this number of characters are guaranteed to raise a `length_error` exception.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

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xref:bsl/basic_string-0f3/size_type.adoc[size_type]
max_size() const noexcept;
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