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Return the path as a container of segments

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/url_view_base.hpp#L1823[boost&sol;url&sol;url&lowbar;view&lowbar;base&period;hpp]&gt;`

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xref:boost/urls/segments_view.adoc[segments&lowbar;view]
segments() const noexcept;
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== Description

This function returns a bidirectional view of strings over the path&period; The returned view references the same underlying character buffer&semi; ownership is not transferred&period; Any percent&hyphen;escapes in strings returned when iterating the view are decoded first&period;

== Example
[,cpp]
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segments_view sv = url_view( "/path/to/file.txt" ).segments();
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== Complexity
Constant&period;

== Exception Safety
Throws nothing&period;

== BNF
[,cpp]
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path          = [ "/" ] segment *( "/" segment )
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== Specification
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.3[]

== Return Value

A bidirectional view of segments&period;

== See Also

xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/is_path_absolute.adoc[`is&lowbar;path&lowbar;absolute`], xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/encoded_path.adoc[`encoded&lowbar;path`], xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/encoded_segments.adoc[`encoded&lowbar;segments`]&period; xref:boost/urls/url_view_base/path.adoc[`path`], xref:boost/urls/segments_view.adoc[`segments&lowbar;view`]&period;


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