gdbm

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gdbm

Description

GNU DBM bindings for Chicken.

Author

Alex Shinn

Requirements

None

Download

gdbm.egg

Documentation

The following flags and procedures are defined. For more information, consult the gdbm(3) manual pages.

gdbm-open

(gdbm-open FILE [BLOCK-SIZE FLAGS MODE])

Returns a DBF object. FLAGS is one of the following:

<constant>GDBM_READER</constant> <constant>GDBM_WRITER</constant> <constant>GDBM_WRCREAT</constant> <constant>GDBM_NEWDB</constant> <constant>GDBM_SYNC</constant> <constant>GDBM_NOLOCK</constant>

gdbm-close

(gdbm-close DBF)

gdbm-store

(gdbm-store DBF KEY VALUE FLAG)

Returns an INT. FLAG is one of the following:

<constant>GDBM_INSERT</constant> <constant>GDBM_REPLACE</constant>

gdbm-delete

(gdbm-delete DBF KEY)

gdbm-fetch

(gdbm-fetch DBF KEY)

Returns a STRING

gdbm-exists

(gdbm-exists DBF KEY)

Returns a BOOL

gdbm-first-key

(gdbm-first-key DBF)

Returns a STRING

gdbm-next-key

(gdbm-next-key DBF STRING)

Returns a STRING

gdbm-fold

(gdbm-fold DBF KONS KNIL)

Returns the accumulated result.

Changelog

• 1.2 Daishi Kato provided another bugfix (null-pointer check for undefined results)
• 1.1 Supports keys and values with embedded #\nul characters [Contributed by Daishi Kato]; some fixes and optimizations by felix
• 1.0 Initial release

License

 Copyright (c) 2005, Alex Shinn
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