rmchildren

Purpose

Remove all children of a concept parentCon.

Syntax

returnedBoolean = rmchildren(parentCon)

returnedBoolean - type: boolean
parentCon - type: con

Returns

1 if parentCon has the children concepts that are removed, 0 otherwise.

Remarks

Differs from rmchild in that rmchild deletes a named child concept, while rmchildren deletes all children of argument concept.

Example

This example creates two children concepts then deletes them both. Then it creates them again and deletes one by name:

if(findconcept(findroot(),"a concept"))
rmconcept(findconcept(findroot(),"a concept"));
G("aParent")= makeconcept(findroot(),"a concept")
G("aChild") = makeconcept(G("aParent"),"a child");
G("aChild") = makeconcept(G("aParent"),"a sibling");
rmchildren(G("aParent"));
G("aChild") = makeconcept(G("aParent"),"a child");
G("aChild") = makeconcept(G("aParent"),"a sibling");
rmchild(G("aParent"),"a sibling");