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title: "ClikaRT::ops::clone"
sidebar_label: "clone"
description: "Deep copy on the same device: fresh storage, identical shape, dtype, and values. Equivalent to copy(src) with the defaults."
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## clone() {#clone}

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[`Tensor`](../Tensor.md) **`clone`**([`Tensor`](../Tensor.md) `src`)

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Deep copy on the same device: fresh storage, identical shape, dtype, and values. Equivalent to `copy(src)` with the defaults.

**Throws**

- `ClikaRT::Error`: when the input's dtype/shape is not served for this operation (the machine-readable reason rides `code_name()`).

**Returns:** the owning copy.

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Declared in `ClikaRT/compute/ops.h`, line 2073

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