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Assign characters to a string.

Synopsis

string&
assign(
    string_view s);

Description

Replaces the contents with those of a string view. This view can contain null characters.

Complexity

Linear in s.size().

Strong guarantee. Calls to memory_resource::allocate may throw.

Return Value

*this

Parameters

Name	Description
`s`	The string view to copy from.

Exceptions

Type	Thrown On
`std::length_error`	`s.size() > max_size()`.