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Data declaration with asterisk

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:04:07 GMT

Hallo, everyone,

I'm reading some SAP source codes and found some data declaration like:

DATA: *resbd TYPE resbd.

Can anyone explain to me what this asterisk is for in the data declaration?

thanks

Yong

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:05:48 GMT

hi,

It is nothing but a work area of type resbd ....You can declare it in that way ...You can find such declarations in standard programs ...

Regards,

Santosh

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:06:14 GMT

DATA: *resbd TYPE resbd.  "it is a kind of mirror to resbd

We can use that as Work area.

Standard SAP application follows those type of conventions.

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:07:41 GMT

You can declare any special characters not '-' character.

Rajasekhar.

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:07:52 GMT

It doesn't have any special meaning ..

Just a variable declaration ..

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:09:37 GMT

Hi,

This is nothing but the "old way" of declaring a second work area for a table.

Regards

Adil

Former Member — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:12:12 GMT

hi check this..

DATA: *resbd TYPE resbd .

tables:resb .

select rsnum

rspos

from resb

into *resbd .

endselect .