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Determine Internal Table Type using inline declaration

philipdavy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:56:30 GMT

Hi Experts,

Is it possible to determine the type of internal table while we declare inline internal table in select statement. By default it is coming as standard internal table.

Select field1, field2 from DBtable into table @data(itab).

**/- I need itab to be sorted internal table. I know that sorted, hashed table needs to be/can be further qualified with unique/non-unique sorted keys. But anyways of achieving the same using inline declaration as of 7.40 or 7.5 or any future plans to bring the same.

Re: Determine Internal Table Type using inline declaration

retired_member — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:02:12 GMT

Up to now, the answer is no.

Re: Determine Internal Table Type using inline declaration

philipdavy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:26:09 GMT

Horst Keller,

I really appreciate your quick answer. You people did a great job by introducing great features in ABAP and your timely response for the ABAP 7.40/50 related queries is highly commendable. 🙂 🙂

PS: Ever had any internal discussion/thought about the query which I raised. Because sometimes it looks strange that you can have inline declaration for standard table but not for others.

Re: Determine Internal Table Type using inline declaration

retired_member — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:00:59 GMT

Ever had any internal discussion/thought about the query which I raised.

Of course, but there's so much to do.

A very dirty workaround:


IF 'X' = 'Y'.
  SELECT SINGLE ... 
         FROM ... 
         WHERE 'X' = 'Y'
         INTO @DATA(wa).
ENDIF.

DATA itab LIKE ... TABLE OF wa WITH ...

SELECT ...
       INTO TABLE @itab.