Returns members in a sorted set within a lexicographical range.
ZRANGEBYLEX
key min
max [LIMIT
offset
count]
When all the elements in a sorted set are inserted with the same
score, in order to force lexicographical ordering, this command returns
all the elements in the sorted set at key
with a value
between min
and max
.
If the elements in the sorted set have different scores, the returned elements are unspecified.
The elements are considered to be ordered from lower to higher
strings as compared byte-by-byte using the memcmp()
C
function. Longer strings are considered greater than shorter strings if
the common part is identical.
The optional LIMIT
argument can be used to only get a
range of the matching elements (similar to SELECT LIMIT offset,
count in SQL). A negative count
returns all elements
from the offset
. Keep in mind that if offset
is large, the sorted set needs to be traversed for offset
elements before getting to the elements to return, which can add up to
O(N) time complexity.
Valid start and stop must start with (
or [
, in order to specify if the range item is respectively
exclusive or inclusive. The special values of +
or
-
for start and stop have the special
meaning or positively infinite and negatively infinite strings, so for
instance the command ZRANGEBYLEX myzset - + is
guaranteed to return all the elements in the sorted set, if all the
elements have the same score.
Strings are compared as binary array of bytes. Because of how the ASCII character set is specified, this means that usually this also have the effect of comparing normal ASCII characters in an obvious dictionary way. However this is not true if non plain ASCII strings are used (for example utf8 strings).
However the user can apply a transformation to the encoded string so that the first part of the element inserted in the sorted set will compare as the user requires for the specific application. For example if I want to add strings that will be compared in a case-insensitive way, but I still want to retrieve the real case when querying, I can add strings in the following way:
ZADD autocomplete 0 foo:Foo 0 bar:BAR 0 zap:zap
Because of the first normalized part in every element
(before the colon character), we are forcing a given comparison, however
after the range is queries using ZRANGEBYLEX
the
application can display to the user the second part of the string, after
the colon.
The binary nature of the comparison allows to use sorted sets as a general purpose index, for example the first part of the element can be a 64 bit big endian number: since big endian numbers have the most significant bytes in the initial positions, the binary comparison will match the numerical comparison of the numbers. This can be used in order to implement range queries on 64 bit values. As in the example below, after the first 8 bytes we can store the value of the element we are actually indexing.
Array reply: a list of elements in the specified score range.
O(log(N)+M) with N being the number of elements in the sorted set and M the number of elements being returned. If M is constant (e.g. always asking for the first 10 elements with LIMIT), you can consider it O(log(N)).
@read @slow @sortedset
127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD myzset 0 a 0 b 0 c 0 d 0 e 0 f 0 g
(integer) 7
127.0.0.1:6379> ZRANGEBYLEX myzset - [c
1) "a"
2) "b"
3) "c"
127.0.0.1:6379> ZRANGEBYLEX myzset - (c
1) "a"
2) "b"
127.0.0.1:6379> ZRANGEBYLEX myzset [aaa (g
1) "b"
2) "c"
3) "d"
4) "e"
5) "f"
ZRANGE
with the
BYLEX
argument.BZMPOP, BZPOPMAX, BZPOPMIN, ZADD, ZCARD, ZCOUNT, ZDIFF, ZDIFFSTORE, ZINCRBY, ZINTER, ZINTERCARD, ZINTERSTORE, ZLEXCOUNT, ZMPOP, ZMSCORE, ZPOPMAX, ZPOPMIN, ZRANDMEMBER, ZRANGE, ZRANGESTORE, ZRANK, ZREM, ZREMRANGEBYLEX, ZREMRANGEBYRANK, ZREMRANGEBYSCORE, ZREVRANK, ZSCAN, ZSCORE, ZUNION, ZUNIONSTORE.