From 22da170a29ed068dd57e11870b88b0f0cf08fe1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fahad Alrashed <fahad@keylock.net>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 11:12:17 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed the documentation of clear() Added an entry to
 changes.h

---
 doc/news/changes.h                   | 6 ++++++
 include/deal.II/base/table_handler.h | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/news/changes.h b/doc/news/changes.h
index 8bc18b2d41..00194caf27 100644
--- a/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -333,6 +333,12 @@ inconvenience this causes.
 <h3>Specific improvements</h3>
 
 <ol>
+  <li> New: TableHandler objects can be cleared - i.e. reset to a 
+  zero-sized state.
+  <br>
+  (Fahad Alrashed, 2014/11/09)
+  </li>
+
   <li> New: The FE_Nothing class now has a second template argument
   corresponding to the space dimension in which the mesh is embedded,
   like many other classes. This allows to use this element in codimension
diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/table_handler.h b/include/deal.II/base/table_handler.h
index e6d81d920e..924b6269af 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/base/table_handler.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/base/table_handler.h
@@ -514,7 +514,9 @@ public:
   void write_tex (std::ostream &file, const bool with_header=true) const;
 
   /**
-   * Clears the values in the table.
+   * Clears the rows of the table, 
+   * i.e. calls clear() on all the 
+   * underlying storage data structures.
    */
   void clear ();
 
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