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Insert or assign `obj` under the specified `key`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_unorderedmap.h>`

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template<class BDE_OTHER_TYPE>
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insert_or_assign(
    KEY const& key,
    BDE_OTHER_TYPE&& obj);
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== Description

If a key equivalent to the specified `key` already exists in this unordered_map, assign the specified `obj` to the value associated with that key, and return a pair containing an iterator referring to the existing item and `false`. Otherwise, insert into this map a newly‐created `value_type` object, constructed from `(key, std::forward<BDE_OTHER_TYPE>(obj)...))`, and return a pair containing an iterator referring to the newly‐created entry and `true`.

== Return Value

iterator to the element and whether insertion occurred

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *key*
| key to look up
| *obj*
| mapped value to insert or assign
|===


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