topic READ STATEMENT Clarrification in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561990#M1431487 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P>Can we use READ STATEMENT In ABAP to directly Read the DATA BASE TABLE like MARA.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:49:34 GMT Former Member 2010-02-08T08:49:34Z READ STATEMENT Clarrification https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561990#M1431487 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P>Can we use READ STATEMENT In ABAP to directly Read the DATA BASE TABLE like MARA.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:49:34 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561990#M1431487 Former Member 2010-02-08T08:49:34Z Re: READ STATEMENT Clarrification https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561991#M1431488 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No we cant do that.</P><P></P><P>Read statement is used to read the internal tables.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:55:31 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561991#M1431488 former_member645692 2010-02-08T08:55:31Z Re: READ STATEMENT Clarrification https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561992#M1431489 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Sorry but you cannot use the READ statement to read the data directly from the database table.......you have to select the data from it into the internal table of same type...and read the internal table.</P><P></P><P>Pooja</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:59:28 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561992#M1431489 Former Member 2010-02-08T08:59:28Z Re: READ STATEMENT Clarrification https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561993#M1431490 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thanks for clarrification</P><P></P><P>Edited by: SUHAS S on Feb 8, 2010 10:02 AM</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:01:41 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/read-statement-clarrification/m-p/6561993#M1431490 Former Member 2010-02-08T09:01:41Z