Thanks again for your answer.
I'm not sure whether I understood everything correctly.

if FORMAT:match 'latex' then
  function Table (elem)
    elem.caption = {}
    return {elem}
  end
end

Gives me an error message.

BPJ schrieb am Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2021 um 23:00:07 UTC+1:

> You can just return the original table having replaced the caption with an 
> empty list in place.
>
>
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> Den tors 14 jan. 2021 13:29Stephan Boltzmann <stephan2...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 
> skrev:
>
>> Thanks a lot for your hint.
>>
>> Then I would still have to fix the return statement.
>>
>> BP schrieb am Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2021 um 11:43:32 UTC+1:
>>
>>> I think you should use `elem.caption = {}`
>>>
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>>> Den tors 14 jan. 2021 10:41Stephan Boltzmann <stephan2...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 
>>> skrev:
>>>
>>>> Hello everybody out there using Pandoc,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to remove the caption from tables in PDF output and tried 
>>>> a couple of things without success:
>>>>
>>>> if FORMAT:match 'latex' then
>>>>   function Table (elem)
>>>>     --caption = elem.caption
>>>>     caption = elem.c[2] -- caption seems to be second element
>>>>     print(pandoc.utils.stringify(caption))
>>>>     --elem.c[2] =  nil
>>>>     --elem.c[2] =  pandoc.Str('Test')
>>>>     --elem.caption =  nil
>>>>     --elem = nil
>>>>     --return {pandoc.Table(elem.c)}
>>>>     --return {elem}
>>>>     --elem:remove(2)
>>>>     --table.remove(elem.c,2)
>>>> --[[
>>>>     return {
>>>>       pandoc.Para(pandoc.Str('test'))
>>>>     }
>>>> --]]
>>>>     return {
>>>>       --pandoc.Table(elem.caption, elem.aligns, elem.widths, 
>>>> elem.headers, elem.rows)
>>>>     }
>>>>   end
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> The main problem could actually rather be the construction of the table 
>>>> using the function pandoc.Table in the return statement:
>>>> Could not read list: Could not get Block value: expected table, got 
>>>> 'nil' (nil)
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