:relfileprefix: ../../../../ [#boost-urls-grammar-string_view_base-2conversion-06] = xref:boost.adoc[pass:[boost]]::xref:boost/urls.adoc[pass:[urls]]::xref:boost/urls/grammar.adoc[pass:[grammar]]::xref:boost/urls/grammar/string_view_base.adoc[pass:[string_view_base]]::operator std::string Conversion == Synopsis Declared in header `` [source,cpp,subs="verbatim,macros,-callouts"] ---- explicit operator xref:std.adoc[std]::string() const noexcept; ---- == Description Conversion to std::string is explicit because assigning to string using an implicit constructor does not preserve capacity.