[development] Removing variables

[Peter Anderson]

Hi all,

I have a module that uses quite a few variables and would like to remove 
them in my hook_uninstall() function, but I don't want to have to list 
them all manually...

I see three ways to do this:
1 - Run variable_del() for each variable manually
2 - List all variables then remove the ones that start with my module's name
3 - Delete variables directly from the database that start with my 
module's name

I'm obviously trying to avoid #1.
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?
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 option...

What is the recommended way to call variable_del() on a bunch of 
variables? I'm using D7 if that helps.
Thanks.

-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Anderson.
http://panda.id.au

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