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    <p>The position of the first element in a non-empty collection.</p>

<p>Identical to <code>endIndex</code> in an empty collection.</p>

    <h4>Declaration</h4>    
    <code class="language-swift">var startIndex: Index { get }</code>

        <h4>Declared In</h4>
            <a href="../../protocol/_CollectionType/"><code>_CollectionType</code></a>
        </div></div>
</div>

<h3>Subscripts</h3>
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