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[#boost-urls-operator_eq-01]

== xref:boost.adoc[pass:[boost]]::xref:boost/urls.adoc[pass:[urls]]::operator==


Return the result of comparing two URLs


=== Synopsis

Declared in header `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/url_view_base.hpp#L2411[boost/url/url_view_base.hpp,window=blank_]>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,macros,-callouts"]
----
bool
operator==(
    xref:boost/urls/url_view_base.adoc[url_view_base] const& u0,
    xref:boost/urls/url_view_base.adoc[url_view_base] const& u1) noexcept;
----

=== Description


The URLs are compared component by
component as if they were first
normalized.
[,cpp]
----
url_view u0( "http://www.a.com/index.htm" );
url_view u1( "http://www.a.com/index.htm" );
assert( u0 == u1 );
----
[,cpp]
----
url a(u0);
a.normalize();
url b(u1);
b.normalize();
return a.buffer() == b.buffer();
----

=== Linear in `min( u0.size(), u1.size() )`

=== Throws nothing

* link:https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.2[6.2.2 Syntax-Based Normalization (rfc3986)]




=== Return Value


`true` if `u0 &equals;&equals; u1`