Caché ObjectScript Reference - InterSystems Documentation

ZKILLZKILLDeletes a node while preserving the node's descendants.ZKILL:pc array-node,...ZK:pc array-node,...Argumentspcarray-nodeOptional — A postconditional expression.A local variable, a process-private global, or a global that is an arraynode, or a comma-separated list of local, process-private global, orglobal array nodes.DescriptionThe ZKILL command removes the value of a specified array node without killing that node'sdescendants. In contrast, the KILL command removes the value of a specified array nodeand all of that node's descendants. An array node can be a local variable, a process-privatevariable, or a global variable.ArgumentspcAn optional postconditional expression. Caché executes the command if the postconditionalexpression is true (evaluates to a non-zero numeric value). Caché does not execute the commandif the postconditional expression is false (evaluates to zero). For further details, referto Command Postconditional Expressions in Using Caché ObjectScript.array-nodeA local, process-private global, or global array node. You can specify a single array node, ora comma-separated list of array nodes. For further details on subscripts and nodes, refer toGlobal Structure in Using Caché Multi-Dimensional Storage.ExampleIn this example, the ZKILL command deletes node a(1), but does not remove node a(1,1).Caché ObjectScript Reference 393