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