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Sort Internal Table Partialy

Former Member — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:43:21 GMT

Dear All,

I am having one ITAB which having 4000 records.

I want sort my records partialy.

E.g. Some records will be sorted against certain criteia and other will be some differnt criteria in a

Single Internal table.

Is it Possible?

If so kindly give me some input.

Thanking you in Advance.

Siladitya

Re: Sort Internal Table Partialy

Former Member — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:51:51 GMT

Hi siladitya,

1. I don't think it is possible in 1 straight shot.

2. u will have to take 2 extra itnernal tables

of same structure.

3. then using loop where

u must popultae the 1 extra table,

then using second loop where 2nd condition,

u must popultae the 2 extra table.

4. then u must sort them individually

using both criteria.

5. then u can merge them.

something of the above logic.

I hope it helps.

regards,

amit m.

Re: Sort Internal Table Partialy

Former Member — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:52:26 GMT

split the table and sort them in different orders.

and combine..

regards

vijay

Re: Sort Internal Table Partialy

Former Member — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:53:18 GMT

Hi sarkar,

You can do this by using dynamic sorting.

Check this link...

2. I have found another link... See if it is help full.

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

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Vivek.

Re: Sort Internal Table Partialy

Former Member — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:00:24 GMT

Hi its not possible to sort the internal tables PARTIALLY.

in order to acheive ur functionality what u can do is...

sort based on ur requirements multiple times as follows.

sort itab by field1.

.....

sort itab by field2.

....

sort itab by field3.

....

...

hope u got my point.

satish

Re: Sort Internal Table Partialy

former_member186741 — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:53:44 GMT

to achieve this you can include generic field(s) solely for sorting. eg if you have a table with data fields Rec_type(1), matnr and date. You could create a table:

sort_field(20) " can be as long as the longest source field

rec_type,

matnr,

date.

You can then have logic to populate the sort field, say

if rec_type = 'A'.

concatenate matnr date into sort_field.

else.

sort_field = date.

endif.

You can then sort the table. Obviously you could have multiple fields, sort_field1,2 etc.