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ASSIGN TABLE?

Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:20:09 GMT

I need access to an internal table from the call stack. So how do I use the ASSIGN statement to grab the contents of a table and then start looping at the table within my subroutine?

Re: ASSIGN TABLE?

franois_henrotte — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:45:56 GMT

here is how to do it:

DATA: mem_name TYPE char60 VALUE '(REPID)TABNAME[]'.

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <table> TYPE ANY TABLE,

<struc> TYPE ANY.

ASSIGN (mem_name) TO <table>.

LOOP AT <table> ASSIGNING <struc>.

ENDLOOP.

Re: ASSIGN TABLE?

Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:02:36 GMT

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Edited by: Julius Bussche on Dec 23, 2009 11:33 PM

Re: ASSIGN TABLE?

Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:34:50 GMT

david,

no offense but please go though this to know about call stacks..

call stack

François has given a very good response to it...

@modos: please do the needful

Re: ASSIGN TABLE?

Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:31:22 GMT

Sorry, I misunderstood the question.

Best regards.

Re: ASSIGN TABLE?

Clemenss — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:45:20 GMT

... and for simplification please write

FIELD-SYMBOLS: 
  <table> TYPE TABLE,
  <struc> TYPE ANY.

ASSIGN ('(REPID)TABNAME[]') TO <table>.

LOOP AT <table> ASSIGNING <struc>.

ENDLOOP.

Regards,

Clemens

P.S. It was release 4.something that it was in the ABAP online help with the hint that it should not be used because it may be changed in the next release. They did not change anything since then but removed the documentation

Re: ASSIGN TABLE?

Former Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:32:46 GMT

> They did not change anything since then but removed the documentation

Are you sure? There have been a lot of changes in ABAP and I heard that (dirty ('(assign's) where on a list somewhere.

Certainly they have been security considerations...

Cheers,

Julius

Re: ASSIGN TABLE?

Former Member — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:56:03 GMT

Just tip, apart from above replies:

Check for SY-SUBRC value as 0, immediately after ASSIGN, other wise, it throws dump (OR) catch the system exception at root level and handle it.

Also, at the end use UNASSIGN for performence reasons.

thanq