Data declaration with asterisk

[Former Member]

Hallo, everyone,

I'm reading some SAP source codes and found some data declaration like:

DATA: *resbd TYPE resbd.

Can anyone explain to me what this asterisk is for in the data declaration?

thanks

Yong

[Former Member]

hi,

It is nothing but a work area of type resbd ....You can declare it in that way ...You can find such declarations in standard programs ...

Regards,

Santosh

[Former Member]

DATA: *resbd TYPE resbd.  "it is a kind of mirror to resbd

We can use that as Work area.

Standard SAP application follows those type of conventions.

[Former Member]

You can declare any special characters not '-' character.

Rajasekhar.

[Former Member]

It doesn't have any special meaning ..

Just a variable declaration ..

[Former Member]

Hi,

This is nothing but the "old way" of declaring a second work area for a table.

Regards

Adil

[Former Member]

hi check this..

DATA: *resbd TYPE resbd .

tables:resb .

select rsnum

rspos

from resb

into *resbd .

endselect .