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Replace the contents of this list with the specified `numElements` copies of the specified `value`. Note that, to the extent possible, existing elements of this list are copy‐assigned to, to minimize the number of nodes that need to be copy‐inserted or erased.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_list.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
void
assign(
    xref:bsl/list-054/size_type.adoc[size_type] numElements,
    xref:bsl/list-054/value_type.adoc[value_type] const& value);
----


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