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Return a const iterator to the first element.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_vector.h>`

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== Description

Return an iterator providing non‐modifiable access to the first element in this vector, and the past‐the‐end iterator if this vector is empty.

== Return Value

const iterator to the beginning, or past‐the‐end if empty


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