[#bsl-basic_string-0faf-resize_and_overwrite]
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Change the length of this string to the specified `newLength`, erasing characters at the end if `newLength < length()` or appending the appropriate number of characters at the end if `length() < newLength`. Subsequently, invoke the specified `operation` passing the address of the null‐terminated buffer and the adjusted length of this string as parameters. Finally, change the length of this string to the value returned by the `operation`. Throw `length_error` if `newLength > max_size()`. The behavior is undefined unless the value returned by the `operation` is less than or equal to `newLength`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
template<class OPERATION>
void
resize_and_overwrite(
    xref:bsl/basic_string-0faf/size_type.adoc[size_type] newLength,
    OPERATION operation);
----


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