dbm_fetch() -- NDBM Function (libgdbm)

Fetch a record from an NDBM data base
#include <ndbm.h>
datum dbm_fetch (database, key)
DBM *file;
datum key;

Function dbm_fetch() retrieves from database the record with the given key.
database must first have been opened through a call to function dbm_open().

dbm_fetch() returns the address of the record it has retrieved.  It returns
NULL either if something went wrong  (e.g., it could not read database), or
if database does not contain a record with key.

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Notes

For  a statement  of copyright  and  permissions on  this routine,  see the
Lexicon entry for libgdbm.

© 2012 by Stephen A. Ness