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What difference between Range & Select option.

Former Member — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:40:01 GMT

What difference between Range & Select option.

Re: What difference between Range & Select option.

Former Member — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:42:27 GMT

Hi,

Here both SELECT-OPTIONS & RANGES works for the same purpose. They both are used for the range selection from selection screen. The main diff. between them is, while we use SELECT-OPTIONS system implicitly creates the select options internal table which contains the fields of SIGN,OPTION,LOW & HIGH. But in case of RANGES, this internal table should be defined explicitly.

Eg. to SELECT-OPTIONS :

REPORT YARSELECT.

TABLES YTXLFA1.

SELECT-OPTIONS : VENDOR FOR YTXLFA1-LIFNR.

INITIALIZATION.

VENDOR-LOW = 1000. " It specifies the range starting value.

VENDOR-HIGH = 2000. " It specifies the range ending value.

VENDOR-OPTION = 'BT'. " specifies ranges value is in between.

VENDOR-SIGN = 'I'. "specifies both inclussive.

APPEND VENDOR.

- - - -

SELECT LIFNR LAND1 NAME1 FROM LFA1 INTO TABLE ITAB

WHERE LIFNR IN VENDOR.

Eg. to RANGES:

REPORT YARRANGE.

TABLES YTXLFA1.

RANGES: VENDOR FOR YTXFLA1-LIFNR.

- - - -

- - - --

- - - -

SELECT LIFNR LAND1 NAME1 FROM LFA1 INTO TABLE ITAB

WHERE LIFNR IN VENDOR.

Here with RANGES user has to design an internal table with fields -

SIGN,OPTION,LOW and HIGH EXPLICITLY.

Re: What difference between Range & Select option.

Former Member — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:06:38 GMT

Main diffrence is that ranges is not a component of selection screen as select option is. ranges is used while executable programs are called using submit program.

Re: What difference between Range & Select option.

Former Member — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:08:03 GMT

Eg. to SELECT-OPTIONS :

REPORT YARSELECT.

TABLES YTXLFA1.

SELECT-OPTIONS : VENDOR FOR YTXLFA1-LIFNR.

INITIALIZATION.

VENDOR-LOW = 1000. " It specifies the range starting value.

VENDOR-HIGH = 2000. " It specifies the range ending value.

VENDOR-OPTION = 'BT'. " specifies ranges value is in between.

VENDOR-SIGN = 'I'. "specifies both inclussive.

APPEND VENDOR.

- - - -

SELECT LIFNR LAND1 NAME1 FROM LFA1 INTO TABLE ITAB

WHERE LIFNR IN VENDOR.

Eg. to RANGES:

REPORT YARRANGE.

TABLES YTXLFA1.

RANGES: VENDOR FOR YTXFLA1-LIFNR.

- - - -

- - - --

- - - -

SELECT LIFNR LAND1 NAME1 FROM LFA1 INTO TABLE ITAB

WHERE LIFNR IN VENDOR.

Here with RANGES user has to design an internal table with fields -

SIGN,OPTION,LOW and HIGH EXPLICITLY.

Example:

select-options: bukrs for zstock-bukrs.

Should the user fill in 'ABFI' in BUKRS on the selection screen, BUKRS will look like this:

IEQABFI

This is because BUKRS is set as a table as follows:

begin of bukrs occurs 0,

SIGN(1) type c,

OPTION(2) type c,

LOW like bukrs,

HIGH like bukrs,

end of bukrs.

Now, when you create the following range, it will have the exact same fields set inside its table:

Ranges: bukrs for zstock-bukrs.

The difference is, because ranges doesn't show on the selection screen, you will have to fill it yourself, meaning you will have to fill bukrs-sign, bukrs-option, bukrs-low & bukrs-high all manually.

Some tips:

Sign is always I (for Include) or E (for Exclude)

Option can be a whole range, which includes:

EQ (Equal)

BT (Between))

CP (Contain Pattern)

So let's say you want to have the range check for all company codes not starting with AB, you will set your code as follow:

ranges: bukrs for zstock-bukrs.

bukrs-sign = 'E'. "Exclude

bukrs-option = 'CP'. "Pattern

bukrs-low = 'AB*'. "Low Value

bukrs-high = ''. "High Value

append bukrs.

Always remember to APPEND your range when you fill it, as the WHERE clause checks against the lines of the range table, not against the header line.

Hope this explains it well enough.

What does SIGN "I" & "E" mean?

The "I" stands for Include, and the "E" for Exclude.

The easiest way to learn how the range selections work is, create the following dummy program:

report dummy.

tables: mara.

select-options: matnr for mara-matnr.

start-of-selection.

loop at matnr.

write: / matnr-sign,

matnr-option,

matnr-low,

matnr-high.

endloop.

Run this program, and fill in a lot of junk into MATNR. Fill in some includes, some excludes, some ranges, etc., and you will soon realise how the system builds ranges (select-options). Once you know that, you can fill your own ranges quickly and efficiently.

Regards,

Pavan

Re: What difference between Range & Select option.

former_member196299 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:10:32 GMT

hi ,

The major difference we can condiser is : select options creates an interface in the selection screen whereas ranges doesnt ..

Regards,

Ranjita

Re: What difference between Range & Select option.

Former Member — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:12:01 GMT

Hi,

Difference

Select-option is used in selection screen where as ranges can not be used as such in selection screen.

Similarity

The manner in which data is stored is similar so that in your ABAP program you can populate a range and assign values at run time to select options

Re: What difference between Range & Select option.

varma_narayana — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:12:37 GMT

Hi..

tables : MARA.

SELECT-OPTIONS: S_MATNR FOR MARA-MATNR.

RANGES : R_MATNR FOR MARA-MATNR.

both these statements Create a Table with the fields

SIGN = 'I' or 'E' (INCLUDE OR EXCLUDE)

OPTION = 'BT' 'EQ' ...etc

LOW = Lower limit

HIGH = Upper limit

But Only Select-options Generate a field on the SELECTION SCREEN.

Mostly we use the RANGES table to fill the Selection criteria to Pass to another program while calling using SUBMIT.

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