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ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

former_member195355 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:17:25 GMT

Hi,

I have this code which runs fine in our non-unicode SAP system.


REPORT  ECC5_OFFSETS.

DATA: W_KONV TYPE KONV.

DATA: TKOMK LIKE STANDARD TABLE OF KOMK
                 WITH KEY KEY_UC
                 INITIAL SIZE 2
                 WITH HEADER LINE.

DATA: TKOMK2 type STANDARD TABLE OF KOMK
                 WITH KEY KEY_UC
                 INITIAL SIZE 2.

* Get some test data
SELECT SINGLE * INTO W_KONV FROM  KONV
       WHERE  KNUMV  = '0000000061'.

MOVE-CORRESPONDING W_KONV TO TKOMK.
APPEND TKOMK.
tkomk2[] = TKOMK[].

* Original non-Unicode compliant code
DATA: LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK(3) TYPE P.

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <TKOMK_KEY> like TKOMK2.

DESCRIBE DISTANCE BETWEEN TKOMK-MANDT AND TKOMK-SUPOS
          INTO LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK
* ( Original Unicode syntax fix! )
          IN BYTE MODE.

* Copy all the fields between these two into TKOMK_KEY field-symbol.
* ( In Unicode this assignment fails, causing short dump at read )
ASSIGN TKOMK2(LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK) TO <TKOMK_KEY>.
* Read the current record.
READ TABLE TKOMK2 WITH KEY <TKOMK_KEY>.

But I get the following error message in our UNICODE complaint SAP system:

<b>"<TKOMK_KEY>" cannot be a table, a reference, a string, or contain any of these objects.</b>

Does anyone know how I could get around this/suggest a solution?

Thanks in advance!

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

Former Member — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:20:34 GMT

Try this:

<b>FIELD-SYMBOLS: <TKOMK_KEY> TYPE TABLE.</b>

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

former_member195355 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:24:40 GMT

Hi Sam,

I tried your suggestion and the exact same error came up

Any other ideas...

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

Former Member — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:28:50 GMT

Ok...the problem is in this line:

<b>READ TABLE tkomk2 WITH KEY <tkomk_key>.</b>

You have to do:

READ TABLE tkomk2 WITH KEY fieldname = somevalue.

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

former_member195355 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:41:39 GMT

Hi Sam,

Yep that's as far as I got. This code works fine in 4.6b but in ECC5, that line you mentioned failes the syntax check.

The only reason why I don't waht to do what you suggest is becasue I'll have to code each of the 283 fields that it currently uses in the read!

I was hoping that there would be an easier way to do the same thing...

Any other ideas...?

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

Former Member — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:49:44 GMT

Can you please explain what is your exact requirement?

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

former_member195355 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:17:00 GMT

Hi,

Sorry if I'm being unclear.

My requirements are twofold:

1)the line of code:

ASSIGN TKOMK2(LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK) TO <TKOMK_KEY>

does not assign anything to the fields symbol <TKOMK_KEY>

2)The read statement does not like the fields symbol <TKOMK_KEY> being used as a key.

Both these bits of code worked in our 4.6b system but now in the ECC5 environemtn I get syntax errors.

Let me know if you need anything else!

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

Former Member — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:44:40 GMT

Do this change in your code:


DATA: tkomk2 TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF komk
                 WITH KEY key_uc
                 INITIAL SIZE 2
                 <b>WITH HEADER LINE</b>.

Re: ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

former_member183804 — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:43:43 GMT

The solution is to type the Field-Symbol with the table type:


FIELD-SYMBOLS: <TKOMK_KEY> like line of TKOMK2.

Best Regards

Klaus