topic Re: Alternative for Binary Search? in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627449#M1942155 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Key field contain both numeric and non numeric values that time search is failing.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:48:58 GMT koushikking 2016-04-07T13:48:58Z Alternative for Binary Search? https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627447#M1942153 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Experts,</P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>When am reading internal table into work area by using binary search performance is too good, only if it contains numeric values but if internal table contains any alphabetic values search is failing so i just need alternative way to find records without using linear search as internal table contains huge records.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 06:42:44 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627447#M1942153 koushikking 2016-04-07T06:42:44Z Re: Alternative for Binary Search? https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627448#M1942154 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Binary Search will work even if the key fields are non-numeric. It may be a stupid question, but I hope you are sorting the table by all the search key fields in ascending order before performing the search?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:30:12 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627448#M1942154 Former Member 2016-04-07T13:30:12Z Re: Alternative for Binary Search? https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627449#M1942155 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Key field contain both numeric and non numeric values that time search is failing.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:48:58 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627449#M1942155 koushikking 2016-04-07T13:48:58Z Re: Alternative for Binary Search? https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627450#M1942156 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If it's a READ reference, can't you make this table of type sorted with unique key, or hashed?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:57:03 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/alternative-for-binary-search/m-p/11627450#M1942156 Szczerbowski 2016-04-13T10:57:03Z