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Assign to this string the value of the specified `string`, and return a reference providing modifiable access to this string.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

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template<class ALLOC2>
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assign(std::basic_string<char, char_traits<char>, ALLOC2> const& string);
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