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Return `true` if the specified `a` is equal to the specified null‐terminated C‐string `b` and `false` otherwise. Note that this function is more efficient than `compare` for non‐lexicographical equality comparisons.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_stringref.h>`

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template<class CHAR_TYPE>
static
bool
compareEqual(
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRefImp-0c.adoc[StringRefImp<CHAR_TYPE>] const& a,
    CHAR_TYPE const* b);
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