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[Former Member]

IF NOT A IS INITIAL

WHAT DOES THIS STATEMENT MEAN?

[Former Member]

Hi,

it checks whether internal table is empty or not.

IF NOT A IS INITIAL MEANS

IF A IS NOT EMPTY

Regards

[Former Member]

Hi,

it depends upon the type of variable A.

if a is of type char it will check for if A NE ' '.

otherwise it will check for if a NE 0.

rgds,

bharat.

[Former Member]

Hi

It means that A is having some value means it is not blank.

Its having some value.

Reward if help.

[Former Member]

This will check whether the Variable A has other than initial vaule.

If A is charcter variable then the default value is Space. So the statement willl check whether A is ´having other than space.

Cheers,

Vasanth

[Former Member]

Hi,

If NOT A is initial.

And the Statement

If A is not initial.

mean the same thing.

Its just a check to see whether the field A has some value or not.

Incase A is an internal table it should by typed as A[].

Rewards if helpful.

Regards.

[Former Member]

Hi,

It checks the whether A is filled up with the values or not.

Thanks,

Sriram Ponna.

[Former Member]

hi check this,and compare these two .....

tables:mara.

data: begin of it_mara occurs 0,

matnr like mara-matnr,

meins like mara-meins,

mtart like mara-mtart,

pstat like mara-pstat,

end of it_mara.

select-options:s_matnr for mara-matnr.

select matnr

meins

mtart

pstat

from mara

into table it_mara

where matnr in s_matnr.

if not it_mara[] is initial.

loop at it_mara.

write:/ it_mara-matnr,

it_mara-meins,

it_mara-mtart,

it_mara-pstat.

endloop.

endif.

uline.

skip 2.

if not it_mara is initial.

loop at it_mara.

write:/ it_mara-matnr,

it_mara-meins,

it_mara-mtart,

it_mara-pstat.

endloop.

endif.

reward points if useful,

venkat.

[Former Member]

Hai jamnun ,

If Not Itab is Initial .

this means It Will Check Whether The Table Is Initial Are Not.

Nothing but It Check For Initial value.

Regards.

Eshwar.

[Former Member]

IF NOT A IS INITIAL

and

IF A IS NOT INITIAL

means the same.

Some difference is there in performance.

It checks if A = 0 (initial) in case of numeric or it checks if A = ' ' (blankspace) if it is character.

This is very similar to

if A <> B

or

if !(A = B)

both are same.

Consider B = 0 for numeric comparison.

Hope it aws hrlpful.

Regards,

saipriya

[Former Member]

Hi

IF A HAD SOME VALUES THEN IT WILL ALLOW IN TO THAT CONDITION OTHER WISE IT WILL WON'T ALLOW THAT TO ENTER INTO THAT CONDITION

IF A IS INITIAL THAT MEANS ITS HAVING NOTHING (EMPTY)

THEN IT WON'T ALLOW IT INTO GOTO THE CONDITION IT WILL SKIP THAT if BLOCK

[sreelatha_gullapalli]

hi

IF A NOT INITIAL means A already contains some values itis not at the initial stage.

Regards,

Sreelatha Gullapalli

[Former Member]

If not a is initial means-

IF 'a' has a value.

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