counter value problem in internal table

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

Can some one help with small problem.

i need to count entries(no) and put into one varibale after deleting first 4 values from the itab.

LOOP AT ITAB.

COUNTER = COUNTER + 1.

IF COUNTER > 4.

EXIT.

ENDIF.

DELETE ITAB INDEX SY-TABIX.

ENDLOOP.

This is working fine up to deleting 4 values from itab.

after that i want to store the no enetries remaining in the itab into one variable.

How can we do it?

say itab having 40 entries after deleting first 4 i have to store 36 entries as a no into "one variable".

I used DESCRIBE TABLE itab LINES N.

but it is giving only "4".

why?

Thanks.

Sailu

[Former Member]

LOOP AT ITAB.

COUNTER = COUNTER + 1.

IF COUNTER <= 4.

DELETE ITAB .

ENDIF.

Append itab

ENDLOOP.

Hope this will solve ur problem...

[Former Member]

Hi Try this.

Delete itab index 1.

Delete itab index 2.

Delete itab index 3.

Delete itab index 4.

Then try describe table itab lines lv_lin.

you will get the no of entries in lv_lin.

Regards,

Sharath

[Former Member]

IN MY CODE I AM USING LIKE THAT

LOOP AT ITAB.

COUNTER = COUNTER + 1.

IF COUNTER > 4.

EXIT.

ENDIF.

DELETE ITAB INDEX SY-TABIX.

ENDLOOP.

DESCRIBE TABLE itab LINES N.

CONCATENATE text-001 g_text N text-002

INTO g_lang SEPARATED BY space.

But inconcatenate "N" is not alowing because n is DATA:N type I.

I want "N" value in my concatenate statement.

How we going to convert?

Thanks.

[Former Member]

move it to a character variable.

DATA:
  w_lines   type i,
  w_char(2) type c.


DESCRIBE TABLE itab LINES w_lines.

w_char = w_lines.

[Former Member]

you can move any type of variable to a character varaible and then use it in concatenate. You can do the same here as well by passing integer variable in a caharacter variable.

[Former Member]

It is giving "char " value as a "*"(star) not exactly converting.

[Former Member]

Solved one

[Former Member]

increase the length of your character variable. means something like char(10) means your char variable should be of enough length to hold the integer value otherwise it will give *.

[jayanthi_jayaraman]

Hi,

It is because of the length in char field.Change the declaration according to the no. of lines.

DATA:

w_lines type i,

w_char(5) type c.

[former_member242255]

it is working fine..

DATA : counter TYPE i,
     counter1 TYPE i.
DATA itab TYPE but000 OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE.
SELECT * FROM but000 INTO TABLE itab UP TO 10 ROWS.
LOOP AT itab.
  counter = counter + 1.
  IF counter > 4.
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
  DELETE itab INDEX sy-tabix.
ENDLOOP.


DESCRIBE TABLE itab LINES counter1.
WRITE / counter1.

[Former Member]

Hello,

Instead doing loop and all. Use delete statement using from and to.

DELETE ITAB FROM 1 to 4. See help for delete statements.

Try to debug the logic, you can know what exactly happening and you can fix it yourself.