Re: Deleting all elements from a table

["Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@...>]

On 9/13/06, Andreas Stenius <kaos@explosive.se> wrote:
> Easily fixed by checking specifically for non nil keys:
>
> while next(t) ~= nil do
>         t[next(t)] = nil
> end

The code above calls next(t) twice per iteration instead of once.
Logically correct iteration should be:

local k= next(t)
while k ~= nil do
 t[k]= nil
 k= next(t)
end

--Leo--