---
name: "cs_destroy"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "clearsilver-dev"
version: "0.10.5-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cs_destroy"
---

# cs\_destroy(3)

clean up and dealloc a parse tree

## NAME

cs\_destroy  - clean up and dealloc a parse tree

## SYNOPSIS

```
#include <cs/cs.h>
```

```
void cs_destroy (CSPARSE **parse);
```

## ARGUMENTS

parse - a pointer to a parse structure.

## DESCRIPTION

cs\_destroy will clean up all the memory associated with a CSPARSE structure, including strings passed to cs\_parse\_string.  This does not clean up any memory allocated by your own CSOUTFUNC or the HDF data structure passed to cs\_init.  It is safe to call this with a NULL pointer, and it will leave parse NULL as well (ie, it can be called more than once on the same var)

## RETURN VALUE

parse - will be NULL

## SEE ALSO

[**cs\_dump**(3)](/cs_dump/3.md), [**cs\_destroy**(3)](/cs_destroy/3.md), [**cs\_render**(3)](/cs_render/3.md), [**cs\_register\_esc\_strfunc**(3)](/cs_register_esc_strfunc/3.md), **cs\_arg\_parsev**(3), [**cs\_register\_fileload**(3)](/cs_register_fileload/3.md), [**cs\_init**(3)](/cs_init/3.md), [**cs\_register\_strfunc**(3)](/cs_register_strfunc/3.md), **cs\_arg\_parse**(3), [**cs\_parse\_string**(3)](/cs_parse_string/3.md), [**cs\_parse\_file**(3)](/cs_parse_file/3.md), **=**(3), **cs\_register\_function**