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Difference between Field Strings and Structures??

Former Member — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:36:18 GMT

Hi All,

Greetings for the day.

Can you please tell me what is the difference between Field Strings and Structures in simple way. I searched in the forums, but i couldn't find any.

If you clear with an examples it would be very helpful to understand that.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ramya.

Re: Difference between Field Strings and Structures??

kesavadas_thekkillath — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:39:26 GMT

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Re: Difference between Field Strings and Structures??

Former Member — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:53:19 GMT

Hi,

Structure is a set of fields defined in the dictionary.

Field string or Work area is a container to hold all fields/ some fields/ fields of many tables used in the program to fetch data from the tables or insert/modify/update data to the tables.

These Fieldstrings or Work areas are used for internal table declarations to hold data at runtime.

This Fieldstring holds one record at a time and Internal table holds set of records.

Eg : selopt is a structure in Dictionary. -

> Structure

data : begin of wa_spfli ,

carrid type spfli-carrid,

connid type spfli-connid,

end of wa_spfli.

So, this wa_spfli is a workarea for fetching data of flights table.