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38        To delete a record using a cursor, simply position the cursor to the
39        record that you want to delete and then call 
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44            <span><code class="methodname">DBC-&gt;del()</code>.</span>
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51      <pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;
52#include &lt;string.h&gt;
53
54...
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56DB *dbp;
57DBC *cursorp;
58DBT key, data;
59char *key1str = "My first string";
60int ret;
61
62/* Database open omitted */
63
64/* Initialize our DBTs. */
65memset(&amp;key, 0, sizeof(DBT));
66memset(&amp;data, 0, sizeof(DBT));
67
68/* Set up our DBTs */
69key.data = key1str;
70key.size = strlen(key1str) + 1;
71
72/* Get the cursor */
73dbp-&gt;cursor(dbp, NULL, &amp;cursorp, 0);
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75/* Iterate over the database, deleting each record in turn. */
76while ((ret = cursorp-&gt;get(cursorp, &amp;key,
77               &amp;data, DB_SET)) == 0) {
78    cursorp-&gt;del(cursorp, 0);
79}
80
81/* Cursors must be closed */
82if (cursorp != NULL)
83    cursorp-&gt;close(cursorp); 
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85if (dbp != NULL)
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