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Return a reference providing modifiable access to the character at the first position in this string&period; The behavior is undefined if this string is empty&period;

== Synopsis

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

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CHAR&lowbar;TYPE&
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