topic Re: abap query in Application Development and Automation Discussions

abap query

Former Member — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:05:22 GMT

Can any body tell

What is difference between Field Symbol and Wrok area?

Regards

laskhmi

Re: abap query

Former Member — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:06:51 GMT

Hi,

Welcome to SDN

Field symbol

Field symbols are placeholders or symbolic names for other fields.They are nothing but the pointer equivalent of C in ABAP.

for detail concept and worked out example you can check,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb3860358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

Work Area

It is noting but the line type of an internal table. since you can't directly access the data of an internal table, you have to do it with the help of its corresponding workarea.

for detail concept and worked out example you can check,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/Helpdata/EN/fc/eb36a1358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

Regards,

anirban

Re: abap query

Former Member — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:07:12 GMT

field symbol : this something which is acting a pointer pointing to any memory or structure or data.

workarea: this comes in picture while using internal tables,

this consists of single data.

one by one data is being processed.

Re: abap query

Former Member — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:07:39 GMT

Work area means is a sructure with the help you can do data manipulation in Internal tables.

You must retrieve data from Itab to Work area before any modifcation.

At run time you can assign any data type to field symbols.

Aditya

Re: abap query

narin_nandivada3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:08:47 GMT

Hi Lakshmi,

Please check this thread...

Hope this would help you

Good luck

Narin.