How to cast a table knowing its name?

[Jilani Khaldi <jilani.khaldi1@...>]

Hi All,
how to write in Lua something like this:
newtab=table("table_name")
and have a new table (newtab) which has all the data of the table 
"table_name"

Thanks!

Jilani

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Jilani Khaldi
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M€TA (Manuale Economico & Tecnico dell'Architetto)