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Return the url as a null‐terminated string

== Synopsis

Declared in `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/url_base.hpp#L128[boost/url/url_base.hpp]>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
char const*
c_str() const noexcept;
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== Description

This function returns a pointer to a null terminated string representing the url, which may contain percent escapes.

== Example
[,cpp]
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assert( std::strlen( url( "http://www.example.com" ).c_str() ) == 22 );
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== Complexity
Constant.

== Exception Safety
Throws nothing.

== Return Value

A pointer to a null‐terminated string containing the URL.


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