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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 (*action) (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).
55The comparison function passed in by
56the user has the same style of return values as
57.Xr strcmp 3 .
58.Pp
59The
60.Fn tfind
61function
62searches for the datum matched by the argument
63.Fa key
64in the binary tree rooted at
65.Fa rootp ,
66returning a pointer to the datum if it is found and NULL
67if it is not.
68.Pp
69The
70.Fn tsearch
71function
72is identical to
73.Fn tfind
74except that if no match is found,
75.Fa key
76is inserted into the tree and a pointer to it is returned.
77If
78.Fa rootp
79points to a NULL value a new binary search tree is created.
80.Pp
81The
82.Fn tdelete
83function
84deletes a node from the specified binary search tree and returns
85a pointer to the parent of the node to be deleted.
86It takes the same arguments as
87.Fn tfind
88and
89.Fn tsearch .
90If the node to be deleted is the root of the binary search tree,
91.Fa rootp
92will be adjusted.
93.Pp
94The
95.Fn twalk
96function
97walks the binary search tree rooted in
98.Fa root
99and calls the function
100.Fa action
101on each node.
102The
103.Fa action
104function
105is called with three arguments: a pointer to the current node,
106a value from the enum
107.Sy "typedef enum { preorder, postorder, endorder, leaf } VISIT;"
108specifying the traversal type, and a node level (where level
109zero is the root of the tree).
110.Sh RETURN VALUES
111The
112.Fn tsearch
113function returns NULL if allocation of a new node fails (usually
114due to a lack of free memory).
115.Pp
116The
117.Fn tfind ,
118.Fn tsearch ,
119and
120.Fn tdelete
121functions
122return NULL if
123.Fa rootp
124is NULL or the datum cannot be found.
125.Pp
126The
127.Fn twalk
128function returns no value.
129.Sh SEE ALSO
130.Xr bsearch 3 ,
131.Xr hsearch 3 ,
132.Xr lsearch 3
133