how to delete all elements in a Lua table?

Question

How do I delete all elements inside a Lua table? I don\'t want to do:

t = {}
table.insert(t, 1)
t = {}  -- this assigns a new pointer to t

I w

Answer 1

#table is the table size and so if t = {1,2,3} then #t = 3

So you can use this code to remove the elements

while #t ~= 0 do rawset(t, #t, nil) end

You will go through the table and remove each element and you get an empty table in the end.