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Note that the <tt class="module">memcache</tt> module 62supports this interface natively. 63 64<p> 65<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> 66 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-23' xml:id='l2h-23' class="method">get</tt></b>(</nobr></td> 67 <td><var>key</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> 68<dd> 69Takes a string <var>key</var> and returns the value as a string. 70</dl> 71 72<p> 73<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> 74 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-24' xml:id='l2h-24' class="method">set</tt></b>(</nobr></td> 75 <td><var>key, value</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> 76<dd> 77Takes a string <var>key</var> and <var>value</var> and stores it in the cache. 78</dl> 79 80<p> 81<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> 82 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-25' xml:id='l2h-25' class="method">delete</tt></b>(</nobr></td> 83 <td><var>key</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> 84<dd> 85Deletes the cached value stored at <var>key</var>. 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