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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` has the same value as the specified `rhs`, and `false` otherwise. Optionally specify an `errorStream` on which, if `lhs` and `rhs` are not the same', a description of how the two strings differ will be written. If `errorStream` is not supplied, `stdout` is used.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslim_testutil.h>`

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static
bool
compareText(
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRef.adoc[bslstl::StringRef] lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRef.adoc[bslstl::StringRef] rhs,
    std::ostream& errorStream = bsl::cout);
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