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Return the address of the parent of this node if one exists, and 0 otherwise&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bslalg&lowbar;rbtreenode&period;h&gt;`

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parent() const;
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== Return Value

address of the parent node, or 0 if none


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