[#boost-urls-authority_view-user]
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Return the user

== Synopsis

Declared in `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/authority_view.hpp#L468[boost/url/authority_view.hpp]>`

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----
template<xref:boost/urls/string_token/StringToken.adoc[string_token::StringToken] StringToken = xref:boost/urls/string_token/return_string.adoc[string_token::return_string]>
StringToken::result_type
user(StringToken&& token);
----

== Description

If present, this function returns a string representing the user (which may be empty). Otherwise it returns an empty string. Any percent‐escapes in the string are decoded first.

== Example
[,cpp]
----
assert( url_view( "http://jane%2Ddoe:pass@example.com" ).user() == "jane-doe" );
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== Complexity
Linear in `this‐>user().size()`.

== Exception Safety
Calls to allocate may throw.

== BNF
[,cpp]
----
userinfo    = user [ ":" [ password ] ]

user        = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims )
password    = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" )
----
== Specification
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.1[]

== Return Value

The user

== Parameters

[cols=2]
|===
| Name
| Description
| *token*
| A string token to receive the result.
|===

== See Also

xref:boost/urls/authority_view/has_password.adoc[`has_password`], xref:boost/urls/authority_view/has_userinfo.adoc[`has_userinfo`], xref:boost/urls/authority_view/encoded_password.adoc[`encoded_password`], xref:boost/urls/authority_view/encoded_user.adoc[`encoded_user`], xref:boost/urls/authority_view/encoded_userinfo.adoc[`encoded_userinfo`], xref:boost/urls/authority_view/password.adoc[`password`], xref:boost/urls/authority_view/userinfo.adoc[`userinfo`].


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