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case statement

Former Member — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:55:14 GMT

Is it necessary that a case statement should always be followed by a when statement?? i mean will i get any error if i dont do the same?

Re: case statement

Former Member — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:56:56 GMT

without when what is the use of case

Re: case statement

Former Member — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:57:16 GMT

when is mandatory

for what do you need this info ?

regards

Re: case statement

Former Member — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:00:54 GMT

i mean i know when is mandatory... what i wanted to know is wht if my stucture is sumthing like this ......

case abc.

sum lines of code here.................

when '1'.

...............

Re: case statement

Former Member — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:00:56 GMT

Hi Sneha..

U can use Case statement like this ....this is the example case statement formate....

CASE .

WHEN .

WHEN OTHERS.

ENDCASE.

Reward me points ..

Pari

Re: case statement

Former Member — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:01:18 GMT

U will not get any error .

But there is no use of such a statement.

case v_check.

endcase.

Re: case statement

prasanth_kasturi — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:03:36 GMT

hi,

there is no point of using a case statement without when.

if you dont use u will get a warning saying case must be folloed by when.

reward if helpful

prasanth

Re: case statement

Former Member — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:06:58 GMT

Hi,

You should have at least one when.

with is case...endcase the first statement should be the WHEN.

if u want to write some condition statements(i.e,irrespective of whens)

write them before the case...endcase.

rgds,

bharat.

Re: case statement

Former Member — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:47:31 GMT

Hi sneha

might be u have not used endcase.

try this it will work

case sy-ucomm.

when '1'.

endcase.

Re: case statement

Former Member — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:50:00 GMT

hi,

wht error u r getting ..

Re: case statement

Former Member — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:08:16 GMT

Hi,

I dont think it is can ever be a requirement for discussion

However, in short, there are specific requirements and mandatory rules/ syntax in every language, and is same in ABAP as well.

Pts to remember in Case-Endcase:

Pt1) A Case-EndCase should have atleast one When statement.

Pt2) You cannot write any statement between Case and the first When statement.

In otherwords, When must be the first statement after a Case statement.

Hope it answers you query

Regards, Tapas

Re: case statement

Former Member — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:58:39 GMT

Hi Sneha,

You wont be getting any error without using WHEN with CASE, but it wont give u any fruitful results, as it will come out of processing without any condition.

Instead of this, try IF....ENDIF.

Prateek.