19.0.0 released Nov 08, 2023
Purge fifo
Purpose: Delete FIFO list data.

purge-fifo <list> [ delete ]

purge-fifo will delete all elements from the FIFO <list>, created by new-fifo. The list is then empty and you can still put data into it, and get data from it afterwards, without having to call new-fifo again.

If you use "delete" clause, then all the internal memory of a <list> is freed, and you must call new-fifo in order to use it again.

Note that in any case, purge-fifo will not free any possibly allocated memory for keys or values stored in its elements (see write-fifo).

See memory-handling for more on when (not) to delete memory explicitly like this; the same rules apply as for delete-mem.
Examples
See read-fifo.
See also
FIFO
new-fifo  
purge-fifo  
read-fifo  
rewind-fifo  
write-fifo    
See all
documentation

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