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Improve documentation of Bro script statements

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Added more documentation of the "delete" statement.  Removed some other
text that was probably more confusing than helpful.
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Daniel Thayer 2016-01-12 15:35:29 -06:00
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@ -277,16 +277,25 @@ Here are the statements that the Bro scripting language supports.
.. bro:keyword:: delete
The "delete" statement is used to remove an element from a
:bro:type:`set` or :bro:type:`table`. Nothing happens if the
specified element does not exist in the set or table.
:bro:type:`set` or :bro:type:`table`, or to remove a value from
a :bro:type:`record` field that has the :bro:attr:`&optional` attribute.
When attempting to remove an element from a set or table,
nothing happens if the specified index does not exist.
When attempting to remove a value from an "&optional" record field,
nothing happens if that field doesn't have a value.
Example::
local myset = set("this", "test");
local mytable = table(["key1"] = 80/tcp, ["key2"] = 53/udp);
local myrec = MyRecordType($a = 1, $b = 2);
delete myset["test"];
delete mytable["key1"];
# In this example, "b" must have the "&optional" attribute
delete myrec$b;
.. bro:keyword:: event
The "event" statement immediately queues invocation of an event handler.
@ -532,8 +541,6 @@ Here are the statements that the Bro scripting language supports.
end with either a :bro:keyword:`break`, :bro:keyword:`fallthrough`, or
:bro:keyword:`return` statement (although "return" is allowed only
if the "switch" statement is inside a function, hook, or event handler).
If a "case" (or "default") block contain more than one statement, then
there is no need to wrap them in braces.
Note that the braces in a "switch" statement are always required (these
do not indicate the presence of a `compound statement`_), and that no
@ -604,12 +611,9 @@ Here are the statements that the Bro scripting language supports.
if ( skip_ahead() )
next;
[...]
if ( finish_up )
break;
[...]
}
.. _compound statement: