How to Clear Tk Text widget

[zackiv31]

I use Perl/Tk, but I think this is the right forumn...

How do I clear a Tk Text widget so I can write new data to it without the old data being there?

 

[Bong]

<text widget path> delete index1 ?index2 ...?
Delete a range of characters from the text. If both index1 and index2 are specified, then delete all the characters starting with the one given by index1 and stopping just before index2 (i.e. the character at index2 is not deleted). If index2 doesn't specify a position later in the text than index1 then no characters are deleted. If index2 isn't specified then the single character at index1 is deleted. It is not allowable to delete characters in a way that would leave the text without a newline as the last character. The command returns an empty string. If more indices are given, multiple ranges of text will be deleted. All indices are first checked for validity before any deletions are made. They are sorted and the text is removed from the last range to the first range to deleted text does not cause a undesired index shifting side-effects. If multiple ranges with the same start index are given, then the longest range is used. If overlapping ranges are given, then they will be merged into spans that do not cause deletion of text outside the given ranges due to text shifted during deletion.

using 0.0 and end as indices, as in:

.<path>.txt1 delete 0.0 end

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