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Moving Incompactible Internal Table without loop...

benu_mariantony2 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:48:58 GMT

Hi All,

I need to move the incompactible internal table using field symbol, (without loop statement)

I've got a internal table

lt_itab TYPE TABLE OF string

The above internal table should be moved to internal table with different field, for instance

TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_tab,
                 Name  TYPE string,
             END OF ty_tab.

DATA lt_maintab  TYPE TABLE OF ty_tab.

I need to to assign lt_tab to lt_maintab without loop statement..

Please advice.

Re: Moving Incompactible Internal Table without loop...

Former Member — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:13:35 GMT

if you could change the types from string to a fixed char width, e.g. char1024 instead of string, than you could assign the tables to each other.

As long as you use string as type, ABAP is talking about deep structures. Only flat structures can directly be assigned. So for me, using ABAP, there's no way around looping.

For somebody used to other languages also, this seems quite strange, but unfortunately is the fact.

Re: Moving Incompactible Internal Table without loop...

Ryan-Crosby — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:24:51 GMT

Hi Benu,

Unfortunately based on the definition of the structures you have it is not possible without the use of the LOOP construct. The definition would have to be altered or a LOOP must be used to achieve this.

Regards,

Ryan Crosby