Modifying the internal table

[Former Member]

Hi,

i have internal table it_pa0000 and work area wa_pa0000 with below fields. i fetched the data from pa0000 into corresponding fields of table it_pa0000. the field partid is with data type char10.

TYPES:BEGIN OF typ_pa0000,

pernr TYPE persno,

endda TYPE endda,

begda TYPE begda,

massn TYPE massn,

massg TYPE massg,

stat2 TYPE stat2,

partid TYPE char10, ---> not in pa0000 database table

END OF typ_pa0000.

now i want to fill partid(char10) with pernr which is numeric....for that i did loop and use modify statement..is there any alternative with good performance?

LOOP AT it_pa0000 INTO wa_pa0000.

wa_pa0000-partid = wa_pa0000-pernr.

MODIFY TABLE it_pa0000 FROM wa_pa0000 .

ENDLOOP.

[Former Member]

no, your code is quite fine.

[JozsefSzikszai]

define a field symbol and LOOP into it, than you don't need the MODIFY statement. This will be a bit faster:

LOOP AT it_pa0000 ASSIGNING <wa_pa0000>.
<wa_pa0000-partid> = <wa_pa0000-pernr>.
ENDLOOP.

(I don't think there should be any performance issue with your coding.)

[Former Member]

well Eric, tho i dont think there is any gain performancewise, your solution is way more elegant

/edit typos corrected

Edited by: Florian Kemmer on Oct 21, 2008 1:57 PM

[vinod_vemuru2]

Hi,

Adding to Eric ans.

<wa_pa0000> should be of type same as it_pa0000

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <wa_pa0000> TYPE typ_pa0000.

I hope U can't better performance other than Eric's solution.

Thanks,

Vinod.

[JozsefSzikszai]

Florian:

LOOP ... INTO ... ==> This will make that the line of the internal table is copied to somewhere else

LOOP ... ASSIGNING ==> This will make that the field symbol shows directly to the line of the internal table, i. e. no copy is done, that makes it a little-little-litte-little... faster

But I pointed out in my first reply, that there should not be any perf. issue in the original coding.

[Former Member]

HI,

I think there should not be any issues.

Thanks,

Sriram Ponna.