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A constrained attribute type that represents a position and a length.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_indexspan.h>`

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class IndexSpan;
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== Description

The constraint is that the sum of the position and length attributes must be representable by the `bsl::size_t` type.

== Type Aliases

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan/size_type.adoc[`size_type`] 
| The type of the position and length attributes.
|===


== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan/2constructor-05.adoc[`IndexSpan`]         [.small]#[constructor]#
| Constructors
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan/isEmpty.adoc[`isEmpty`] 
| Return `true` if the length attribute is 0; and return `false` otherwise.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan/length.adoc[`length`] 
| Return the length attribute.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan/position.adoc[`position`] 
| Return the position attribute.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan/print.adoc[`print`] 
| Format this object to the specified output `stream`.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/IndexSpan/2conversion.adoc[`operator BloombergLP::bslmf::NestedTraitDeclaration<IndexSpan, HasPrintMethod>`] 
| Declare that this type is trivially copyable.
|===


== Non-Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/operator_not_eq-07f.adoc[`operator!=`]
| Return `true` if the specified `lhs` and `rhs` do not have the same value.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlb/operator_eq-0b.adoc[`operator==`]
| Return `true` if the specified `lhs` and `rhs` have the same value.
|===


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