topic Re: Work-Area in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Work-Area

Former Member — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:40:30 GMT

Hi all,

1.What is the Work-Area?

2. what is the Main Use of Work-Area?

3 .What happens if we don't use Work-Area?

Thanks in Advance

Prasanna...

Re: Work-Area

anversha_s — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:42:56 GMT

hi,

the question is answered here.

Regards,

Anver

Re: Work-Area

Former Member — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:42:56 GMT

WORKAREA is a structure that can hold only one record at a time. It is a collection of fields. We use workarea as we cannot directly read from a table. In order to interact with a table we need workarea. When a Select Statement is executed on a table then the first record is read and put into the header of the table and from there put into the header or the workarea(of the same structure as that of the table)of the internal table and then transferred top the body of the internal table or directly displayed from the workarea.

Each row in a table is a record and each column is a field.

While adding or retrieving records to / from internal table we have to keep the record temporarily.

The area where this record is kept is called as work area for the internal table. The area must have the same structure as that of internal table. An internal table consists of a body and an optional header line.

Header line is a implicit work area for the internal table. It depends on how the internal table is declared that the itab will have the header line or not.

Re: Work-Area

p291102 — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:47:34 GMT

Hi,

Each row in a table is a record and each column is a field.

While adding or retrieving records to / from internal table we have to keep the record temporarily.

Header line is a implicit work area for the internal table. It depends on how the internal table is declared that the itab will have the header line or not.

e.g.

data: begin of itab occurs 10,

ab type c,

cd type i,

end of itab. " this table will have the header line.

data: wa_itab like itab. " explicit work area for itab

data: itab1 like itab occurs 10. " table is without header line.

Thanks,

Shankar

Re: Work-Area

Former Member — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:11:29 GMT

Each row in a table is a record and each column is a field.

Difference between Work Area and Header Line

While adding or retrieving records to / from internal table we have to keep the record temporarily.

Header line is a implicit work area for the internal table. It depends on how the internal table is declared that the itab will have the header line or not.

e.g.

data: begin of itab occurs 10,

ab type c,

cd type i,

end of itab. " this table will have the header line.

data: wa_itab like itab. " explicit work area for itab

data: itab1 like itab occurs 10. " table is without header line.

The header line is a field string with the same structure as a row of the body, but it can only hold a single row.

It is a buffer used to hold each record before it is added or each record as it is retrieved from the internal table. It is the default work area for the internal table.