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Finding column Name in structure

Former Member — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:28:51 GMT

Hi All

I have a requirement where i have the field names ( matnr, ekorg) etc., in an intenal table. eg., . using those names I need to read another internal table which carries values for the fields. I need to write a program to check if a particular field in table 1 has an initial value in table 2 or not.

for my logic, I am looping on tab1( since it will contan only few fields) and assigning it to field symbols. but since the values from tab1 are dynamic, i cant hard code to assign field name like Matnr. So I am unable to figure out who to read tab2 with the field names i find in tab1.

I used cl_abap_tabledescr=>describe_by_data (itab2) to columize the fields of itab2. but this method doesnt fetch me the field values? I was wondering if my approach was correct and if there is any way to use fields from itab1 to read values from itab2.

I am not an ABAP expert, so any help is appreciated

Regards

Ruel

Re: Finding column Name in structure

Former Member — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:36:53 GMT

Hi,

You can use this to get the field values.


ASSIGN COMPONENT <comp> OF STRUCTURE <s> TO <FS>.

[Here|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/fc/eb3923358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm] is the link to documentation.

Re: Finding column Name in structure

Former Member — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:47:04 GMT

Thank you nitwick for your quick help. i am able to read the value using fs.

assigned full points. thanks again