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