hdestroy() — Destroy hash search tables

Standards

Format

#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <search.h>

void hdestroy(void);

General description

The hdestroy() function disposes of the search table, and may be followed by another call to hcreate(). After the call to hdestroy(), the data can no longer be considered accessible.

Threading Behavior: see hsearch() — Search hash tables.

Returned value

hdestroy() returns no values.

Related information

• search.h
• bsearch() — Search arrays
• hcreate() — Create hash search tables
• hsearch() — Search hash tables
• lsearch() — Linear search and update
• malloc() — Reserve storage block
• strcmp() — Compare strings
• tsearch() — Binary tree search