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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` and `rhs` metrics do not have the same value and `false` otherwise.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_metric.h>`

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----
bool
operator!=(
    xref:BloombergLP/balm/Metric.adoc[Metric] const& lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/balm/Metric.adoc[Metric] const& rhs);
----

== Description

Two metrics do not have the same value if they record measurements using different collector objects or if one, but not both, have a null collector (i.e., `collector()` is 0).

== Return Value

`true` if `lhs` and `rhs` do not have the same value, and `false` otherwise

== Parameters

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|===
| Name| Description
| *lhs*
| left‐hand operand
| *rhs*
| right‐hand operand
|===


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