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Return an iterator providing non&hyphen;modifiable access to the first element in this vector, and the past&hyphen;the&hyphen;end iterator if this vector is empty&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslstl&lowbar;vector&period;h&gt;`

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begin() const noexcept;
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