Binary table length

[Former Member]

hi,

i have an internal table it_content (it_content type standard table of sdokcntbin)

the lines in this are type raw.

I read a file from the appln server in binary mode and build this table .

I need to know the total length of this table . How do i get the total length of the table contents?

[MarcinPciak]

Hi,

When you declare your internal table, its row type is fixed (here RAW type).

Determining the table's content size is probably not impossible, but somewhat difficult and is not effective.

I guess your goal is to get total size of read file. For this count the bytes while reading the file.

DATA: itab TYPE TABLE OF sdokcntbin WITH HEADER LINE.

DATA: file TYPE rlgrap-filename VALUE '/some_application_server_file.txt',
      curr_bytes TYPE i,
      tot_bytes TYPE i.

OPEN DATASET file FOR INPUT IN BINARY MODE.
IF sy-subrc = 0.
  DO.
    READ DATASET file INTO itab ACTUAL LENGTH curr_bytes.   "when reading the file obtain read bytes
    IF sy-subrc <> 0.
      EXIT.
    ELSE.
      APPEND itab.
      ADD curr_bytes TO tot_bytes.       "...and count them all
    ENDIF.
  ENDDO.

  "all data read in one shot 
  IF curr_bytes <> 0.     
    APPEND itab.
    ADD curr_bytes TO tot_bytes.
  ENDIF.

  WRITE: 'In table there are ', tot_bytes, ' bytes'.
  CLOSE DATASET file.
ENDIF.

Regards

Marcin

[Former Member]

to check the no of records in the table

use:

data: n type i .

Describe table Itab lines n.

and check the system variable.

sy-tfill and sy-tleng.

Regds

Sachhi

[Former Member]

Resolved myself. But the help is equally useful