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[*PRIVATE*]This class provides a namespace for private comparison implementation functions.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_stringref.h>`

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struct StringRefImp_CompareUtil;
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== Static Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefImp_CompareUtil/compare.adoc[`compare`] 
| Compare the specified string object `a` with the specified null‐terminated C‐string `b` using a lexicographical comparison and return a negative value if `a` is less than `b`, a positive value if `a` is greater than `b`, and 0 if `a` is equal to `b`.
| xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefImp_CompareUtil/compareEqual-0b.adoc[`compareEqual`] 
| `compareEqual` overloads
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