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