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`begin` overloads

== Synopses

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

Return an iterator referring to the first character in this modifiable string (or the past‐the‐end iterator if this string is empty).


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Return an iterator providing non‐modifiable access to the first character of this string (or the past‐the‐end iterator if this string is empty).


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