Internal Table related question

[Former Member]

I am dealing with variables internal table. There are 4 entries in it. I want to transfer those 4 entries into another internal table. one way is to write 4 loop statements but i want to know if there is a better way of looping through the same records 4 times. can some body please give me the syntax please?

Thanks.

[Former Member]

I am dealing with variables internal table. There are 4 entries in it. I want to transfer those 4 entries into another internal table. one way is to write 4 loop statements but i want to know if there is a better way of looping through the same records 4 times. can some body please give me the syntax please?

Thanks.

[KodandaPani_KV]

HI,

can you try the below syntax.

IT_FINAL[ ]= IT_FINAL2[]

we are moving all objects form IT_FINAL to IT_FINAL2.

-Phani.

[Former Member]

itab1[] = itab2[].

[sander_vanwilligen]

Hi,

If the other internal table already contains records, then you should use:

APPEND LINES OF itab1 TO itab2.

Otherwise you can use (as suggested by the others):

itab2 = itab1[].

Best regards,

Sander

[Former Member]

Firstly, thank you every one for their answers. Every one got the points.

See what i want to do is this:

Currently i have my data in Internal table 1 and look like this:

Internal Table 1:

field1     field2     OPTION

12          ZXX          EQ

13          ZNN         EQ

Now, what i want to do is to take these 2 values in another internal table but i also want to manipulate the values. one way is to do this:

Loop at internal table1 into internal table 2

IF INTERNAL TABLE 1 - Field2 = 'ZXX'

INTERNAL TABLE 1 - Field2 = 'ZYY'

ENDIF.

APPEND to another table.

ENDLOOP.

Loop at internal table1 into internal table 2

IF INTERNAL TABLE 1 - Field2 = 'ZXX'

INTERNAL TABLE 1 - Field2 = 'ZGG'

ENDIF.

APPEND to another table.

ENDLOOP.

Because in my second internal table, I want to insert ZYY, ZGG and ZNN (total of three records). This way will work but i think there must be a better way to do this and not call 2 loop statements. so i am trying to find out the best practice.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Do you know ABAP? Please learn the ABAP basics or take help from an ABAPper. Looping at one itab into another itab isn't possible.

Here's the code that could help you - there's no need to have two loops.

LOOP AT itab1 into wa1.      "wa1 is a work area of the same struct as itab1
     IF wa1-field2 = 'ZXX'.
          wa1-field2 = 'ZYY'. append wa1 to another_itab.
          wa1-field2 = 'ZGG'. append wa1 to another_itab.
          wa1-field2 = 'ZNN'. append wa1 to another_itab.
     ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

[Former Member]

Hi,

If both table is having same structure then you need not to put loop for filling records.

Please make two internal tables with similar structure like this as an example.

TYPES : Begin of ty_matnr,

matnr TYPE matnr,

END of ty_matnr.

DATA it_matnr TYPE TABLE of ty_matnr.

DATA  it_matnr1 TYPE TABLE of ty_matnr.

SELECT matnr

FROM mara

INTO TABLE it_matnr

UPTO 4 ROWS.

IF sy-subrc EQ 0.

it_matnr1[] = it_matnr[].

ENDIF.

I hope this clarifies your query.

BR,

Praveen