From d34ac633f0a0af8d348b66a38e7497d031f027b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Meghan Denny <hello@nektro.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:53:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add lessThanSlice

---
 src/lib.zig | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib.zig b/src/lib.zig
index 9a7ff7604e6b40f752570588a37892c491cfc5f6..5fb316836b7cc5dbb9f2f4c8dc7770b152890610 100644
--- a/src/lib.zig
+++ b/src/lib.zig
@@ -220,6 +220,18 @@ pub fn sortBySlice(comptime T: type, items: []T, comptime field: std.meta.FieldE
     }.f);
 }
 
+pub fn lessThanSlice(comptime T: type) fn (void, T, T) bool {
+    return struct {
+        fn f(_: void, lhs: T, rhs: T) bool {
+            const result = for (0..@min(lhs.len, rhs.len)) |i| {
+                if (lhs[i] < rhs[i]) break true;
+                if (lhs[i] > rhs[i]) break false;
+            } else false;
+            return result;
+        }
+    }.f;
+}
+
 pub fn containsString(haystack: []const string, needle: string) bool {
     for (haystack) |item| {
         if (std.mem.eql(u8, item, needle)) {
-- 
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