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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 copies of `CHAR_TYPE()` at the end if `length() < newLength`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_string.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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void
resize(xref:bsl/basic_string-0fb/size_type.adoc[size_type] newLength);
----


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