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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Tue Jul 19 17:34:06 2022 +0100 (2022-07-19) |
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1 GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions that
2 use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
3 These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and
4 manipulate a hashed database.
6 The basic use of GDBM is to store key and data pairs in a data file.
7 Each key must be unique and each key is paired with only one data item.
9 The library provides primitives for storing key and data pairs,
10 searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key along
11 with its data.
12 It also support sequential iteration over all key and data pairs in
13 a database.
15 For compatibility with programs using old UNIX dbm function, the package
16 also provides traditional dbm and ndbm interfaces