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Return an iterator positioned at the beginning of the sequence of `MetricRecord` objects referenced by this object&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;metricsample&period;h&gt;`

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begin() const;
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== Return Value

iterator positioned at the beginning of the sequence of records


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