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Return whether the specified null‐terminated strings compare equal.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstp_exfunctional.h>`

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bool
operator()(
    char const* a,
    char const* b) const;
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== Description

Return `true` if the specified strings `a` and `b` have the same value, and return `false` otherwise. Two strings have the same value if the result of `std::strcmp` returns 0.

== Return Value

`true` if the strings compare equal, and `false` otherwise

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *a*
| first null‐terminated string to compare
| *b*
| second null‐terminated string to compare
|===


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