File: cursor.rb [RDoc Documentation]

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## Description

A database cursor is a sequential pointer to the database entries. It allows traversal of the database and access to duplicate keyed entries. Cursors are used for operating on collections of records, for iterating over a database, and for saving handles to individual records, so that they can be modified after they have been read.

A cursor is created with the methods BDB::Common#cursor and BDB::Common#cursor_write