How a Abap Program is Stored ?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how a Abap Program is stored. Is that also in the form of table.If so in which table can i see the Source code.

Regards,

Gowtham Kuchipudi.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how a Abap Program is stored. Is that also in the form of table.If so in which table can i see the Source code.

Regards,

Gowtham Kuchipudi.

[RichHeilman]

I don't that I ever found the actual table. But I think it is stored in some kind of table. You can access this code in an ABAP program in the following way.

report zrich_0001
       no standard page heading
       line-size 300.

parameters: p_prog(30) type c.

data: begin of s occurs 0,
      txt(300) type c,
      end of s.

clear s. refresh s.
read report p_prog into s.           "Get source into table S

loop at s.
  write:/ s-txt.
endloop.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

Hi Gowtham,

The source code is stored in table <b>REPOSRC</b> field <b>DATA</b>. But it is in compressed form . You can however get the source in an internal table using Read Report statement.

Cheers.

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjay,

When tried display the Table Data Field it is showing nothing , why?

Regards,

Gowtham Kuchipudi.

[Former Member]

I mentioned earlier that it is compressed and can be only accesed through READ REPORT . See the data type . Its raw string.

On you other query , a report width is by default 72 .

Check in Se38 -> Utilities -> Settings.

Maximum can be 256 , so safer side define 256 or above in the internal table as some reports have 72 chars and some may have more.

Be specific what your problem is ?

Cheers

[Former Member]

Hi Thank u Sanjay.

Regards,

Gowtham Kuchipudi.

[Former Member]

Hi,

But if i take only 72 characters length instead of 300 that u have specified , it's throwing an error that "READ_REPORT_LINE_TOO_LONG". But i think in the report program also the maximum length of a line is 71. Then why it is throwing that error.

Regards,

Gowtham Kuchipudi.