ASSIGN do not setting SY-SUBRC

[antony_paul2]

I have a simple ASSIGN statement as shown below..issue I am facing is SY-SUBRC is not set..it retains its previous value eventhough field symbol is successfully assigned. Any thoughts? Is it because am assigning a deep/nested structure?

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <lf_deep_str> TYPE t_deep_structure.

ASSIGN deep_strucutre TO <lf_deep_str>.

IF sy-subrc = 0.

..........

ENDIF

[DominikTylczyn]

Hello antony.paul2

Look at ASSIGN keyword documentation on SAP Help. It explains:

The return value is set only for the dynamic variants and the table expression variant of mem_area. Your case is a static variant of mem_area.

Therefore sy-subrc is not set.

Honestly I find this logic convoluted and I wouldn't rely on that. I'd rather put UNASSIGN before ASSIGN and then check if assignment is successful with IS ASSIGNED expression:

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <lf_deep_str> TYPE t_deep_structure.

UNASSIGN <lf_deep_str>.
ASSIGN deep_strucutre TO <lf_deep_str>.

IF <lf_deep_str> IS ASSIGNED.
..........
ENDIF.<br>

That seems safer and more readable to me.

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[antony_paul2]

Thank you Dominik