ASSIGN TABLE?

[Former Member]

I need access to an internal table from the call stack. So how do I use the ASSIGN statement to grab the contents of a table and then start looping at the table within my subroutine?

[franois_henrotte]

here is how to do it:

DATA: mem_name TYPE char60 VALUE '(REPID)TABNAME[]'.

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <table> TYPE ANY TABLE,

<struc> TYPE ANY.

ASSIGN (mem_name) TO <table>.

LOOP AT <table> ASSIGNING <struc>.

ENDLOOP.

[Clemenss]

... and for simplification please write

FIELD-SYMBOLS: 
  <table> TYPE TABLE,
  <struc> TYPE ANY.

ASSIGN ('(REPID)TABNAME[]') TO <table>.

LOOP AT <table> ASSIGNING <struc>.

ENDLOOP.

Regards,

Clemens

P.S. It was release 4.something that it was in the ABAP online help with the hint that it should not be used because it may be changed in the next release. They did not change anything since then but removed the documentation

[Former Member]

> They did not change anything since then but removed the documentation

Are you sure? There have been a lot of changes in ABAP and I heard that (dirty ('(assign's) where on a list somewhere.

Certainly they have been security considerations...

Cheers,

Julius

[Former Member]

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Edited by: Julius Bussche on Dec 23, 2009 11:33 PM

[Former Member]

david,

no offense but please go though this to know about call stacks..

call stack

François has given a very good response to it...

@modos: please do the needful

[Former Member]

Sorry, I misunderstood the question.

Best regards.

[Former Member]

Just tip, apart from above replies:

Check for SY-SUBRC value as 0, immediately after ASSIGN, other wise, it throws dump (OR) catch the system exception at root level and handle it.

Also, at the end use UNASSIGN for performence reasons.

thanq