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Set the user

== Synopsis

Declared in `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/static_url.hpp#L365[boost/url/static_url.hpp]>`

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set_user(core::string_view s);
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== Description

This function sets the user part of the userinfo to the string. Any special or reserved characters in the string are automatically percent‐encoded.

== Example
[,cpp]
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assert( url().set_user("john doe").encoded_userinfo() == "john%20doe" );
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== Postconditions
[,cpp]
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this->has_authority() == true && this->has_userinfo() == true
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== Complexity
Linear in `this‐>size() + s.size()`.

== Exception Safety
Strong guarantee. Calls to allocate may throw.

== BNF
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userinfo      = [ [ user ] [ ':' password ] ]

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

== Return Value

`*this`

== Parameters

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|===
| Name
| Description
| *s*
| The string to set.
|===

== See Also

xref:boost/urls/static_url/remove_password.adoc[`remove_password`], xref:boost/urls/static_url/set_encoded_password.adoc[`set_encoded_password`], xref:boost/urls/static_url/set_encoded_user.adoc[`set_encoded_user`], xref:boost/urls/static_url/set_password.adoc[`set_password`].


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