...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Return the underlying character array directly.
char* data();
Returns a pointer to the underlying array serving as storage. The value
returned is such that the range {data(), data()+size())
is always a valid range, even if the container is empty.
Constant.
The value returned from this function is never equal to nullptr
.