EC_HTABLE_DEL(3)

✨ EC_HTABLE_DEL(3) — Libecoli Programmer's Manual ✨

okay bestie, listen up 💖 this is ec_htable_del from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual, and it does exactly one iconic thing: it deletes an object from the hash table. no cap. it's giving "breakup era" but for your data structures 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_htable_del — Delete an object from the hash table. 🗑️✨

literally that's it. that's the whole job. she's a specialist. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ecoli/htable.h>

int ec_htable_del(
    struct ec_htable   *htable,   /* The hash table. */
    const void         *key,      /* The key. */
    size_t              key_len   /* The key length. */
);

so you're passing in htable (the hash table itself, your main character 👑), key (the key, obviously), and key_len (how long that key is, because C does not read minds and honestly? valid). 🫶

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

• 0 — success, slay, the object is gone, we ate 🔥
• -1 — error bestie 😭 and errno gets set so you can find out what went wrong. always check errno, iykyk.

fr fr, -1 is not a vibe. check your errno, don't just walk away from the crime scene. 🕵️‍♀️

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group, they all link together like a group chat 🧚:

• ec_htable_iter_get_key(3)
• ec_htable_iter_get_val(3)
• ec_htable_iter_next(3)
• ec_htable_has_key(3)
• ec_htable_len(3)
• ec_htable(3)
• ec_htable_force_seed(3)
• ec_htable_dup(3)
• ec_htable_iter_get_key_len(3)
• ec_htable_dump(3)
• ec_htable_set(3)
• ec_htable_get(3)
• ec_htable_free(3)
• ec_htable_iter(3)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this page is brought to you by libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, and it's EC_HTABLE_DEL(3) forever and always 💖✨ go delete something responsibly 💅