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Update technique?

Former Member — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:38:09 GMT

plz help me to find out the ans for this q.

which statement can be applied for sorted IT?

1. sort

2.delete.

3.append.

4modify.

5collect

6 read.

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Atul Bhatia

Re: Update technique?

Former Member — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:41:12 GMT

Hi Atul,

You can use DELETE and READ stmt .

I'm not sure of the rest.

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Regards,

Chitra

Re: Update technique?

Former Member — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:42:08 GMT

Hi Atul,

If question about which statement sorts the contents of an internal table then the answer sould be the first one i.e " SORT ".

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/fc/eb3800358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

The above link will help you understand the functionality of the " SORT " statement.

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Cheers,

Chaitanya.

Re: Update technique?

Former Member — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:46:37 GMT

Hi,

I know that appending (rather than inserting) a new record that doesn't fit the sorting criteria will give a short dump.

But IIRC sorting a sorted table will generate a syntax error in the ABAP error. (you might try to test that though).

You cannot sort a sorted table using the SORT statement. The system always maintains these tables automatically by their sort order. If an internal table is statically recognizable as a sorted table, the SORT statement causes a syntax error. If the table is a generic sorted table, the SORT statement causes a runtime error if the sort key is not the same as an extract of the beginning of the table key, you sort in descending order, or use the AS TEXT addition. In other words, the SORT statement is only allowed for generic internal tables, if it does not violate the internal sort order.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb3800358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

Delete:

you can delete the selected row/rows from the table

Append:

By this you can append an record at the end if only whenthe internal table is a standard table

Read:

we can read the records from the IT

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Chandra Sekhar.