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Return `true` if (1) the specified `lhs` iterator refers to an element before the specified `rhs` iterator in the iteration sequence, or (2) `rhs` (and not `lhs`) has the past‐the‐end value for an iterator over this sequence, and `false` otherwise. The behavior is undefined unless `lhs` and `rhs` are iterators into the same underlying sequence.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslstl_randomaccessiterator.h>`

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template<
    class T1,
    class T2,
    class ITER_IMP,
    class TAG_TYPE>
bool
operator<(
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/RandomAccessIterator.adoc[RandomAccessIterator<T1, ITER_IMP, TAG_TYPE>] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/RandomAccessIterator.adoc[RandomAccessIterator<T2, ITER_IMP, TAG_TYPE>] const& rhs);
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