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Return true if `lhs` precedes `rhs` in the referenced array.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlc_packedintarray.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
bool
operator<(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlc/PackedIntArrayConstIterator.adoc[PackedIntArrayConstIterator<TYPE>] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlc/PackedIntArrayConstIterator.adoc[PackedIntArrayConstIterator<TYPE>] const& rhs);
----

== Description

Return `true` if the specified `lhs` has a value less than the specified `rhs`, `false` otherwise. An iterator has a value less than another if its index is less the other's index. The behavior is undefined unless `lhs` and `rhs` refer to the same array.

== Specializations

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| xref:BloombergLP/bdlc/operator_lt-02b.adoc[`operator<<>`] 
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