Lua - merge tables?

Question

I need to merge two tables, with the contents of the second overwriting contents in the first if a given item is in both. I looked but the standard libraries don\'t seem to

Answer 1

Wouldn't this work properly?

function merge(t1, t2)
    for k, v in pairs(t2) do
        if (type(v) == "table") and (type(t1[k] or false) == "table") then
            merge(t1[k], t2[k])
        else
            t1[k] = v
        end
    end
    return t1
end