To understand how to use the string data type, take the following steps:
- Open a Terminal and connect to Redis with redis-cli.
- To associate a string value to a key, use the SET command. In Relp, we can use the restaurant name as the key and its address as the value; for example, if we would like to set the address for the restaurant "Extreme Pizza":
127.0.0.1:6379> SET "Extreme Pizza" "300 Broadway, New York, NY"
OK
- String values can be retrieved by simply using the GET command:
127.0.0.1:6379> GET "Extreme Pizza"
"300 Broadway, New York, NY"
- Executing GET on a non-existent key will return (nil):
127.0.0.1:6379> GET "Yummy Pizza"
(nil)
- The STRLEN command returns the length of the string; for example, if we would like ...