Pass vars value not reference to table.insert

[Jan Schütze <JanS@...>]

Hello,

The following pseudo code won't add every 3 rows to the table rows, 
because row is a variable so rows would contain one item, and 3 pointers 
to it.
     
       rows={}
       local row = fetchRow()
       while (row) do
           table.insert(rows,row)
           row = fetchRow()
       end

Is there any way to add the 'row'-values content and not a pointer to it?

Currently I use:
       rows={}
       local row = fetchRow()
       while (row) do
           local row2={}
           for key,value in pairs(row) do
               row2[key]=value
           end
           table.insert(rows,row2)
           row = fetchRow()
       end

But I am sure this is easier in lua.

Kind regards,
  Jan (DracoBlue)
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