method

clear

Ruby latest stable (v1_9_3_392) - 0 notes - Class: GDBM

clear() public

Removes all the key-value pairs within gdbm.

static VALUE
fgdbm_clear(VALUE obj)
{
    datum key, nextkey;
    struct dbmdata *dbmp;
    GDBM_FILE dbm;

    rb_gdbm_modify(obj);
    GetDBM2(obj, dbmp, dbm);
    dbmp->di_size = -1;

#if 0
    while (key = gdbm_firstkey(dbm), key.dptr) {
        if (gdbm_delete(dbm, key)) {
            free(key.dptr);
            rb_raise(rb_eGDBMError, "%s", gdbm_strerror(gdbm_errno));
        }
        free(key.dptr);
    }
#else
    while (key = gdbm_firstkey(dbm), key.dptr) {
        for (; key.dptr; key = nextkey) {
            nextkey = gdbm_nextkey(dbm, key);
            if (gdbm_delete(dbm, key)) {
                free(key.dptr);
                if (nextkey.dptr) free(nextkey.dptr);
                rb_raise(rb_eGDBMError, "%s", gdbm_strerror(gdbm_errno));
            }
            free(key.dptr);
        }
    }
#endif
    dbmp->di_size = 0;

    return obj;
}

clear

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