DEL

Single-key request only. Requests with multiple keys are not yet supported.

Synopsis

DEL keyThis command deletes the given key.

  • If the key does not exist, it is ignored and not counted toward the total number of removed keys.

Return value

Returns number of keys that were removed.

Examples

  1. $ SET yuga1 "America"
  1. "OK"
  1. $ SET yuga2 "Africa"
  1. "OK"
  1. $ DEL yuga1
  1. 1
  1. $ DEL not_a_key
  1. 0
  1. $ DEL yuga1 yuga2
  1. "ERR del: Wrong number of arguments"

See also

exists, flushall, flushdb, get, getrange, hdel, hexists, hget, hset, hincrby, sadd, set