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-<td><h3><dl><dt>Berkeley DB Reference Guide:<dd>Simple Tutorial</dl></h3></td>
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-<h1 align=center>Removing elements from a database</h1>
-<p>The simplest way to remove elements from a database is the <a href="../../api_c/db_del.html">DB-&gt;del</a>
-interface.
-<p>The <a href="../../api_c/db_del.html">DB-&gt;del</a> interface takes four of the same five arguments that
-the <a href="../../api_c/db_get.html">DB-&gt;get</a> and <a href="../../api_c/db_put.html">DB-&gt;put</a> interfaces take. The difference
-is that there is no need to specify a data item, as the delete operation
-is only interested in the key that you want to remove.
-<p><dl compact>
-<p><dt>db<dd>The database handle returned by <a href="../../api_c/db_create.html">db_create</a>.
-<p><dt>txnid<dd>A transaction ID.
-In our simple case, we aren't expecting to recover the database after
-application or system crash, so we aren't using transactions, and will
-leave this argument unspecified.
-<p><dt>key<dd>The key item for the key/data pair that we want to delete from the
-database.
-<p><dt>flags<dd>Optional flags modifying the underlying behavior of the <a href="../../api_c/db_del.html">DB-&gt;del</a>
-interface. There are currently no available flags for this interface,
-so the flags argument should always be set to 0.
-</dl>
-<p>Here's what the code to call <a href="../../api_c/db_del.html">DB-&gt;del</a> looks like:
-<p><blockquote><pre>#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
-#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
-#include &lt;db.h&gt;
-<p>
-#define DATABASE "access.db"
-<p>
-int
-main()
-{
- DB *dbp;
- DBT key, data;
- int ret;
-<p>
- if ((ret = db_create(&dbp, NULL, 0)) != 0) {
- fprintf(stderr, "db_create: %s\n", db_strerror(ret));
- exit (1);
- }
- if ((ret = dbp-&gt;open(
- dbp, DATABASE, NULL, DB_BTREE, DB_CREATE, 0664)) != 0) {
- dbp-&gt;err(dbp, ret, "%s", DATABASE);
- goto err;
- }
-<p>
- memset(&key, 0, sizeof(key));
- memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
- key.data = "fruit";
- key.size = sizeof("fruit");
- data.data = "apple";
- data.size = sizeof("apple");
-<p>
- if ((ret = dbp-&gt;put(dbp, NULL, &key, &data, 0)) == 0)
- printf("db: %s: key stored.\n", (char *)key.data);
- else {
- dbp-&gt;err(dbp, ret, "DB-&gt;put");
- goto err;
- }
-<p>
- if ((ret = dbp-&gt;get(dbp, NULL, &key, &data, 0)) == 0)
- printf("db: %s: key retrieved: data was %s.\n",
- (char *)key.data, (char *)data.data);
- else {
- dbp-&gt;err(dbp, ret, "DB-&gt;get");
- goto err;
- }
-<p><b> if ((ret = dbp-&gt;del(dbp, NULL, &key, 0)) == 0)
- printf("db: %s: key was deleted.\n", (char *)key.data);
- else {
- dbp-&gt;err(dbp, ret, "DB-&gt;del");
- goto err;
- }
-</b></pre></blockquote>
-<p>After the <a href="../../api_c/db_del.html">DB-&gt;del</a> call returns, the entry referenced by the key
-fruit has been removed from the database.
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