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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face=sans-serif>I have a module that uses quite a few variables</FONT> and would like to remove them in my hook_uninstall() function, but I don't want to have to list them all manually...<BR><BR>I see three ways to do this:<BR>1 - Run variable_del() for each variable manually<BR>2 - List all variables then remove the ones that start with my module's name<BR>3 - Delete variables directly from the database that start with my module's name<BR><BR>I'm obviously trying to avoid #1.<BR>I've used #2 before (http://drupalbin.com/18718) but am worried about the possible performance implications of running a foreach() on every variable in Drupal... Is this good or not?<BR>I'd prefer not to resort to using SQL to delete variables from the database directly as in #3, but this may be the only recommended
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