[#BloombergLP-bdlcc-SkipList-0b-skipBackward-0c]
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If the item identified by the specified `item` is not at the front of the list, load a reference to the previous item in the list into `item`; otherwise reset the value of `item`. Return 0 on success, and `e_NOT_FOUND` (with no effect on the value of `item`) if `item` is no longer in the list.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlcc_skiplist.h>`

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int
skipBackward(xref:BloombergLP/bdlcc/SkipList-0b/PairHandle.adoc[PairHandle]* item) const;
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