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39        To delete a record using a cursor, simply position the cursor to the
40        record that you want to delete and then call 
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46            <span><tt class="methodname">Dbc::del()</tt>.</span>
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52      <pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db_cxx.h&gt;
53#include &lt;string.h&gt;
54
55...
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57char *key1str = "My first string";
58Db my_database(NULL, 0);
59Dbc *cursorp;
60
61try {
62    // Database open omitted 
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64    // Get the cursor
65    my_database.cursor(NULL, &amp;cursorp, 0);
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67    // Set up our DBTs
68    Dbt key(key1str, strlen(key1str) + 1);
69    Dbt data;
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71    // Iterate over the database, deleting each record in turn. 
72    int ret;
73    while ((ret = cursorp-&gt;get(&amp;key, &amp;data, 
74                                  DB_SET)) == 0) {
75        cursorp-&gt;del(0);
76    }
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78} catch(DbException &amp;e) {
79    my_database.err(e.get_errno(), "Error!");
80} catch(std::exception &amp;e) {
81    my_database.errx("Error! %s", e.what());
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84// Cursors must be closed
85if (cursorp != NULL)
86    cursorp-&gt;close(); 
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