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It just lets you use the table a second time. For example:
select single * from ekpo where ebeln = '12345' and ebelp = '1'.
select single * from *ekpo where ebeln = '67890' and ebelp = '1'.
You now have two separate records, one in ekpo and one in *ekpo.
Another way to do this is to simply use the 'into' argument in the 'select' statement to read the second ekpo record into some other field. The '*' format can be confusing, I think it may be left over from earlier releases, like 2.2.
EKPO is database table and *EKPO is internal table.
Once you select into EKPO, you can use it the same way as *EKPO.
This statement declares an additional table work area *table_wa, whose data type, like that of normal TABLES statements of flat, structured data type table_wa, is copied from the ABAP Dictionary.
The additional table work area can be used like the normal table work area. This applies in particular to obsolete short forms of Open SQL statements.
Declaration of a normal and additional table work area and its use in obsolete short forms of the SELECT statement.
It just lets you use the table a second time. For example:
select single * from ekpo where ebeln = '12345' and ebelp = '1'.
select single * from *ekpo where ebeln = '67890' and ebelp = '1'.
You now have two separate records, one in ekpo and one in *ekpo.
Another way to do this is to simply use the 'into' argument in the 'select' statement to read the second ekpo record into some other field. The '*' format can be confusing, I think it may be left over from earlier releases, like 2.2.
EKPO is database table and *EKPO is internal table.
Once you select into EKPO, you can use it the same way as *EKPO.
Bluesky
