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Same as the preceding `lexicographical` overload, taking explicit range lengths.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslalg_rangecompare.h>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
template<class INPUT_ITER>
static
int
lexicographical(
    INPUT_ITER start1,
    INPUT_ITER end1,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/RangeCompare/size_type.adoc[size_type] length1,
    INPUT_ITER start2,
    INPUT_ITER end2,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslalg/RangeCompare/size_type.adoc[size_type] length2);
----

== Return Value

a negative value if the first range is less, 0 if equal, and a positive value if the first range is greater

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *start1*
| beginning of the first range
| *end1*
| end of the first range (one past the last element)
| *length1*
| length of the first range
| *start2*
| beginning of the second range
| *end2*
| end of the second range (one past the last element)
| *length2*
| length of the second range
|===


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