# File lib/kirbybase.rb, line 1189
    def delete_records(table, recs)
        with_write_locked_table(table) do |fptr|
            recs.each do |rec|
                # Go to offset within the file where the record is and

                # replace it with all spaces.

                write_record(table, fptr, rec.fpos, ' ' * rec.line_length)
                incr_del_ctr(table, fptr)

                delete_from_indexes(table, rec, rec.fpos)
            end

            # Return the number of records deleted.

            return recs.size
        end
    end