Clearing the list created by 'WRITE' statement.

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

What does a 'WRITE' statement do? Does it put data into spool or buffer or somewhere elser? Which one? And how to see this spool/buffer before the list is displayed on the screen? Also is there a way to clear this spool/buffer?

I have a requirement where I need to use 'Write' statement to create a list and then somewhere down in the program I need to clear this list before it is displayed on the screen.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

Bhupendra

[Former Member]

Hi,

write statement just writes the data to the output.NO SPOOL IS GENERATED when you display a report through write.

if you want to generate a spool then press the print button on the menu bar.

i dont think you can clear the thingh you have written.

Instead you can again write ' ' repetedly on the same column row positions so that it will over write the data and write ' '.i.e space

please explain your question more clearly if you want some more help.

why do you want to write then clear before it get displayed???

thanks

vivekanand

[Former Member]

hi

good

The basic ABAP statement for displaying data on the screen is WRITE.

Syntax

WRITE can be

· any data object (see Data Objects)

· a field symbol or formal parameter (see Working with Field Symbols).

· a text symbol (see Maintaining Text Elements)

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/9f/db9e2335c111d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

thanks

mrutyun^

[RichHeilman]

It is stored in a sort of "Buffer", you can write it and get the results in an internal table without having to either write to a spool, or write it to the screen. Here is an example program. internal table IASCII will have the output in readable format.

report  zrich_0001.

data: ilist type table of  abaplist with header line.
data: iacii type table of string with header line.

do 100 times.
  write:/ sy-index.
enddo.

call function 'SAVE_LIST'
     tables
          listobject         = ilist
     exceptions
          list_index_invalid = 1
          others             = 2.

call function 'LIST_TO_ASCI'
     tables
          listasci           = iacii
          listobject         = ilist
     exceptions
          empty_list         = 1
          list_index_invalid = 2
          others             = 3.

call function 'LIST_FREE_MEMORY'
     tables
          listobject = ilist.

* You have the list in the IACII internal table, now you can
* avoid the output to the screen using this statement.
leave list-processing.

Regards,

RIch Heilman

[Former Member]

Hi,

I need to export the list (created by 'WRITE' statements) to memory and then read the memory to pass it to workflow. Then I need to create a different list and then export it again to memory so I need to clear (or delete) the previous list.

Thanks

Bhupendra Singhal