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Note that the <tt class="module">memcache</tt> module supports this interface natively. <p> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-23' xml:id='l2h-23' class="method">get</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var>key</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Takes a string <var>key</var> and returns the value as a string. </dl> <p> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-24' xml:id='l2h-24' class="method">set</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var>key, value</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Takes a string <var>key</var> and <var>value</var> and stores it in the cache. </dl> <p> <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-25' xml:id='l2h-25' class="method">delete</tt></b>(</nobr></td> <td><var>key</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> <dd> Deletes the cached value stored at <var>key</var>. 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