Populating internal table field with same value

[Former Member]

Is there syntax that will fill a field value in every record in an internal table without looping?

[Former Member]

Hi ,

Check MODIFY statement for table with where clause.

Press F1 on Modify.

Hope this helps you.

[Former Member]

use MODIFY with the TRANSPORTING option. Check the online help

something like...

name1 = 'ABHI'
MODIFY TABLE ITab FROM WA TRANSPORTING name1where name2 = 'THAPAR' .

[Former Member]

Without looping or without using the LOOP statement??

Rob

[Clemenss]

Hi Rob,

I didn't know this, after studying online help on MODIFY itab, ABAP Statement

MODIFY itab - itab_lines

Syntax

... itab FROM wa TRANSPORTING comp1 comp2 ... WHERE log_exp.

I tried

DATA:
    ls_t100 TYPE t100,
    lt_t100 TYPE TABLE OF t100.

  SELECT * INTO TABLE lt_t100 FROM t100 UP TO 20 ROWS.
  MODIFY lt_t100 FROM ls_t100 TRANSPORTING text where text <> ls_t100-text .

clears field text in all rows of lt_t100.

after many years of field-symbols finally a reason to use MODIFY again

Regards,

Clemens

[Former Member]

But ABAP must do an internal loop through the table to find and replace the values.

Rob

[Clemenss]

whatever an internal loop in the KERNEL may be.

Clemens

[Former Member]

Try this out: (Here looping is used only to fille the itab and display the records)

types: begin of ty_name,
         first_name(20),
         last_name(20),
       end of ty_name.

data: t_name type standard table of ty_name,
      wa_name like line of t_name.


do 5 times.
  wa_name-first_name = 'John'.
  wa_name-last_name = 'Myers'.
  append wa_name to t_name.
enddo.


wa_name-last_name = 'Mathew'.
MODIFY t_name FROM WA_NAME TRANSPORTING last_name
  where first_name = 'John'.

clear WA_NAME.
loop at t_name into wa_name.
  write:/ wa_name-first_name, ', ', wa_name-last_name.
endloop.

[kesavadas_thekkillath]

APPEND LINES OF itab1 TO itab2.

INSERT <line> INTO TABLE <itab>.

Check f1 help for this statements