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27.\"	OpenBSD: tsearch.3,v 1.2 1998/06/21 22:13:49 millert Exp
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30.Dd June 15, 1997
31.Dt TSEARCH 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm tsearch , tfind , tdelete , twalk
35.Nd manipulate binary search trees
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In search.h
38.Ft void *
39.Fn tdelete "const void * restrict key" "void ** restrict rootp" "int (*compar) (const void *, const void *)"
40.Ft void *
41.Fn tfind "const void *key" "void * const *rootp" "int (*compar) (const void *, const void *)"
42.Ft void *
43.Fn tsearch "const void *key" "void **rootp" "int (*compar) (const void *, const void *)"
44.Ft void
45.Fn twalk "const void *root" "void (*compar) (const void *, VISIT, int)"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Fn tdelete ,
49.Fn tfind ,
50.Fn tsearch ,
51and
52.Fn twalk
53functions manage binary search trees based on algorithms T and D
54from Knuth (6.2.2).  The comparison function passed in by
55the user has the same style of return values as
56.Xr strcmp 3 .
57.Pp
58The
59.Fn tfind
60function
61searches for the datum matched by the argument
62.Fa key
63in the binary tree rooted at
64.Fa rootp ,
65returning a pointer to the datum if it is found and NULL
66if it is not.
67.Pp
68The
69.Fn tsearch
70function
71is identical to
72.Fn tfind
73except that if no match is found,
74.Fa key
75is inserted into the tree and a pointer to it is returned.  If
76.Fa rootp
77points to a NULL value a new binary search tree is created.
78.Pp
79The
80.Fn tdelete
81function
82deletes a node from the specified binary search tree and returns
83a pointer to the parent of the node to be deleted.
84It takes the same arguments as
85.Fn tfind
86and
87.Fn tsearch .
88If the node to be deleted is the root of the binary search tree,
89.Fa rootp
90will be adjusted.
91.Pp
92The
93.Fn twalk
94function
95walks the binary search tree rooted in
96.Fa root
97and calls the function
98.Fa action
99on each node.
100The
101.Fa action
102function
103is called with three arguments: a pointer to the current node,
104a value from the enum
105.Sy "typedef enum { preorder, postorder, endorder, leaf } VISIT;"
106specifying the traversal type, and a node level (where level
107zero is the root of the tree).
108.Sh SEE ALSO
109.Xr bsearch 3 ,
110.Xr hsearch 3 ,
111.Xr lsearch 3
112.Sh RETURN VALUES
113The
114.Fn tsearch
115function returns NULL if allocation of a new node fails (usually
116due to a lack of free memory).
117.Pp
118The
119.Fn tfind ,
120.Fn tsearch ,
121and
122.Fn tdelete
123functions
124return NULL if
125.Fa rootp
126is NULL or the datum cannot be found.
127.Pp
128The
129.Fn twalk
130function returns no value.
131