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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` and `rhs` samples do not have the same value, and `false` otherwise&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;metricsample&period;h&gt;`

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----
bool
operator!&equals;(
    xref:BloombergLP/balm/MetricSample.adoc[MetricSample] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/balm/MetricSample.adoc[MetricSample] const& rhs);
----

== Description

Two samples do not have the same value if they have different values for their timestamps, or number of record groups, or if any of the groups of records at corresponding indices have different values&period;

== Return Value

`true` if `lhs` and `rhs` do not have the same value, and `false` otherwise

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *lhs*
| left&hyphen;hand operand
| *rhs*
| right&hyphen;hand operand
|===


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