...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 first segment.
std::string front() const;
This function returns a string with the first segment of the path without any leading or trailing '/' separators. Any percent-escapes in the string are decoded first.
this->empty() == false
return *begin();
assert( url_view( "/path/to/file.txt" ).segments().front() == "path" );
Linear in this->front().size()
.
Calls to allocate may throw.