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Insert or assign a mapped value for `key`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_hashtable.h>`

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----
template<
    class KEY_ARG,
    class BDE_OTHER_TYPE>
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insertOrAssign(
    bool* isInsertedFlag,
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    KEY_ARG&& key,
    BDE_OTHER_TYPE&& obj);
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== Description

If a key equivalent to the specified `key` already exists in this hash‐table, assign the specified `obj` to the value associated with that key, load `false` into the specified `isInsertedFlag` and return a pointer to the existing entry. Otherwise, insert into this hash‐table a newly‐created `value_type` object, constructed from `key` and `obj`, load `true` into `isInsertedFlag`, and return a pointer to the newly‐created entry. Use the optionally specified `hint` as a starting place for the search for the existing key.

== Return Value

pointer to the existing or newly created entry

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *isInsertedFlag*
| set to `true` if a new entry was inserted
| *hint*
| optional starting node for the key search
| *key*
| key to insert or assign
| *obj*
| mapped value to insert or assign
|===


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