* map from keys to <i>nonempty</i> collections of values:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>a → 1, 2
 *   <li>b → 3
 * </ul>
 *
 * ... or as a single "flattened" collection of key-value pairs:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>a → 1
 *   <li>a → 2
 *   <li>b → 3
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p><b>Important:</b> although the first interpretation resembles how most multimaps are

 * associated with a key and then add the key back to the multimap, that key will come last in the
 * key iteration order.
 *
 * <p>The multimap does not store duplicate key-value pairs. Adding a new key-value pair equal to an
 * existing key-value pair has no effect.
 *
 * <p>Keys and values may be null. All optional multimap methods are supported, and all returned
 * views are modifiable.
 *

 * especially useful for command-line configuration of a {@code CacheBuilder}.
 *
 * <p>The string syntax is a series of comma-separated keys or key-value pairs, each corresponding
 * to a {@code CacheBuilder} method.
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>{@code concurrencyLevel=[integer]}: sets {@link CacheBuilder#concurrencyLevel}.

    return new String(array);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the longest string {@code prefix} such that {@code a.toString().startsWith(prefix) &&
   * b.toString().startsWith(prefix)}, taking care not to split surrogate pairs. If {@code a} and
   * {@code b} have no common prefix, returns the empty string.
   *
   * @since 11.0
   */
  public static String commonPrefix(CharSequence a, CharSequence b) {
    checkNotNull(a);

  }

  @LazyInit @RetainedWith @CheckForNull private transient ImmutableSetMultimap<V, K> inverse;

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p>Because an inverse of a set multimap cannot contain multiple pairs with the same key and
   * value, this method returns an {@code ImmutableSetMultimap} rather than the {@code
   * ImmutableMultimap} specified in the {@code ImmutableMultimap} class.
   */
  @Override

import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * A {@code Multimap} that cannot hold duplicate key-value pairs. Adding a key-value pair that's
 * already in the multimap has no effect. See the {@link Multimap} documentation for information
 * common to all multimaps.
 *

    // which would result in the surrogate pair being (wrongly) considered safe.
    // If we clip the safe range used during the per-character tests so it is
    // below the values of characters in surrogate pairs, this cannot occur.
    // This approach does mean that we break out of the fast path code in cases
    // where we don't strictly need to, but this situation will almost never
    // occur in practice.

   *     smallest possible to fit {@code tableSize}; or an {@code Object[]} where [0] is one of
   *     these; [1] indicates how many element pairs in {@code alternatingKeysAndValues} are valid;
   *     and [2] is a {@link Builder.DuplicateKey} for the first duplicate key encountered.
   */
  @CheckForNull
  private static Object createHashTable(

   * for use with it (such as all-ASCII text) and for simple debugging text. When using this method,
   * consider the following:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>it may split surrogate pairs
   *   <li>it may split characters and combining characters
   *   <li>it does not consider word boundaries
   *   <li>if truncating for display to users, there are other considerations that must be taken

    extends AbstractMultimap<K, V> implements ListMultimap<K, V>, Serializable {
  /*
   * Order is maintained using a linked list containing all key-value pairs. In
   * addition, a series of disjoint linked lists of "siblings", each containing
   * the values for a specific key, is used to implement {@link
   * ValueForKeyIterator} in constant time.
   */