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### 3009. Including `<string_view>` doesn't provide `std::size/empty/data`

Section: 25.7 [iterator.range] Status: C++20 Submitter: Tim Song Opened: 2017-08-11 Last modified: 2021-06-06

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Discussion:

`basic_string_view` has `size()`, `empty()`, and `data()` members, but including `<string_view>` isn't guaranteed to give you access to the corresponding free function templates. This seems surprising.

[ 2017-11-01 Moved to Tentatively Ready after 7 positive votes for P0 on c++std-lib. ]

[2018-3-17 Adopted in Jacksonville]

Proposed resolution:

This resolution is relative to N4687.

1. Edit [iterator.container] as indicated:

   > -1- In addition to being available via inclusion of the `<iterator>` header, the function templates in 27.8 are available when any of the following headers are included: `<array>`, `<deque>`, `<forward_list>`, `<list>`, `<map>`, `<regex>`, `<set>`, `<string>`, `<string_view>`, `<unordered_map>`, `<unordered_set>`, and `<vector>`.