loop V.S read

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have a question here (kinda stupid)...I wrote two codes..both return me same result.

But I have to know which way better....The Loop V.S The Read.

Below are my codes:

The Loop way........

LOOP AT it_table WHERE mtart = 'ZTG' OR mtart = 'ZPM'.
  EXIT.
ENDLOOP.

IF sy-subrc = 0.
  READ TABLE it_table WITH KEY mtart = 'ZSM' BINARY SEARCH.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
    lv_flag = 1.           
  ELSE.
    lv_flag = 0.           
  ENDIF.
ELSE.
  lv_flag = 0.          
ENDIF.

and the Read way.....

READ TABLE it_table WITH KEY mtart = 'ZTG' BINARY SEARCH.
IF sy-subrc NE 0.
  READ TABLE it_table WITH KEY mtart = 'ZPM' BINARY SEARCH.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
    lv_flag1 = 0.       
  ELSE.
    lv_flag1 = 1.        
  ENDIF.
ELSE.
  lv_flag1 = 0.        
ENDIF.

READ TABLE it_table WITH KEY mtart = 'ZSM' BINARY SEARCH.
IF sy-subrc = 0.
  IF lv_flag1 = 0.          
    lv_flag = 1.            
  ELSE.                    
    lv_flag = 0.           
  ENDIF.
ELSE.
  lv_flag = 0.           
ENDIF.

Can someone please tell me which way better?

The fastest and most effective.

I tried SE30, and I got different duration every time I run above codes.

I tried ST05, I can't get what I want....the duration of these codes...

Please advice and help.

Thanks.

Cheers,

Law

[Former Member]

Hi,

Read statement with binary search is the best option...

But make sure that ur funtionality is fine....

If both the codes work in the same way , go for the second one...

regards,

lavanya

[Former Member]

Hmm...but the 2nd way uses more indicator (lv_flag1) and more lines of codes. Doesn't this affected the performance as well?

By the way....before perform both ways, the internal table was sorted by the field mtart.

[jaideepsharma]

Go for the second way...even SAP recommends read table compared to loop at..

[Former Member]

hi check this..

the main difference between the loop and read..

suppose i had one record for every record there may be so many records ...like a record in the mara-matnr there may be many in the mard table ..in this case we use the loop in the loop..

loop at it_mara .

loop at it_mard where matnr = it_mara-matnr.

it_final[] = it_mard[].

append it_final.

endloop.

endloop.

for every record if there is only one record...the we will use the read statement...in the loop..

loop at it_mara .

read table it_marc with key matnr = it_mara-matnr.

endloop.

regards,

venkat.