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Less&hyphen;than operators

== Synopses

Declared in `&lt;bdld&lowbar;datumbinaryref&period;h&gt;`

Return `true` if the specified `lhs` compares smaller than the specified `rhs`, and `false` otherwise&period; A byte comparision is performed using memcpy&period;


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----
bool
xref:BloombergLP/bdld/operator_lt-09b.adoc[operator&lt;](
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumBinaryRef.adoc[DatumBinaryRef] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumBinaryRef.adoc[DatumBinaryRef] const& rhs);
----

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Return `true` if value of the specified `lhs` is less than value of the specified `rhs` and `false` otherwise&period; Value of `lhs` is less than value of `rhs` if error code value of `lhs` is less than error code value of `rhs`, or they have the same error code value and error message value of `lhs` is less than error message value of `rhs`&period;


[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
bool
xref:BloombergLP/bdld/operator_lt-03.adoc[operator&lt;](
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumError.adoc[DatumError] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumError.adoc[DatumError] const& rhs);
----

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Return `true` if value of the specified `lhs` is less than value of the specified `rhs` and `false` otherwise&period; Value of `lhs` is less than value of `rhs`, if data value of `lhs` is less than data value of `rhs`, or they have the same data value and type value of `lhs` is less than type value of `rhs`&period;


[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
bool
xref:BloombergLP/bdld/operator_lt-09e.adoc[operator&lt;](
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumUdt.adoc[DatumUdt] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdld/DatumUdt.adoc[DatumUdt] const& rhs);
----

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