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Return the number of elements between the specified `lhs` and `rhs` as a signed value. The behavior is undefined unless `lhs` and `rhs` reference the same array. Note that the return value is positive when a positive number of `rhs++` invocations would result in `lhs == rhs`, and negative when a positive number of `rhs‐‐` invocations would result in `lhs == rhs`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlc_compactedarray.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
std::ptrdiff_t
operator‐(
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlc/CompactedArray_ConstIterator.adoc[CompactedArray_ConstIterator<TYPE>] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdlc/CompactedArray_ConstIterator.adoc[CompactedArray_ConstIterator<TYPE>] const& rhs);
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