LREM

LREM key count element

Available since

1.0.0

Time complexity

O(N+M) where N is the length of the list and M is the number of elements removed.

ACL categories

@write, @list, @slow

Removes the first count occurrences of elements equal to element from the list stored at key. The count argument influences the operation in the following ways:

• count > 0: Remove elements equal to element moving from head to tail.
• count < 0: Remove elements equal to element moving from tail to head.
• count = 0: Remove all elements equal to element.

For example, LREM list -2 "hello" will remove the last two occurrences of "hello" in the list stored at list.

Note that non-existing keys are treated like empty lists, so when key does not exist, the command will always return 0.

Examples #

RPUSH mylist "hello"
RPUSH mylist "hello"
RPUSH mylist "foo"
RPUSH mylist "hello"
LREM mylist -2 "hello"
LRANGE mylist 0 -1