DEL

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

Synopsis

DEL key

This 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

$ SET yuga1 "America"

"OK"

$ SET yuga2 "Africa"

"OK"

$ DEL yuga1

1

$ DEL not_a_key

0

$ DEL yuga1 yuga2

"ERR del: Wrong number of arguments"

See also

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