How To Clear A Table

I'm messing around with tables and am in need of a way to clear an already existing table. Being new to Lua, I can't figure out what to do at this point (Also, what I have already looks so hilariously wrong). Help would be appreciated.

If you must keep using the reference the table points to, you'll have to nil every indices of the table:

for key, value in pairs(tbl) do tbl[key] = nil end

If you use the table only for one thing, and the reference is not important, you can just recreate it:

tbl = {}

EDIT: The latter creates a new table right there an then and puts its reference into tbl.

LBPHacker, on 26 July 2013 - 09:58 AM said:

If you must keep using the reference the table points to, you'll have to nil every indices of the table:

for key, value in pairs(tbl) do tbl[key] = nil end

If you use the table only for one thing, and the reference is not important, you can just recreate it:

tbl = {}

EDIT: The latter creates a new table right there an then and puts its reference into tbl.

Can't believe I didn't think of those haha. Thanks again LBPHacker!