Problem if Select-Option is INITIAL.

[Former Member]

HI all,

I have a question on how to handle to handle Select-Options.

IF some_value IN S_value.

Logic1.

ELSE.

Logic2.

ENDIF.

Problem here is when Select-Option S_value is Empty. It is true for all values in 'some_value'. Is there any easy way to handle it, WITHOUT explicitly checking if the Select-Option IS INITIAL or not, it make my code lot simpler.

Thanks in Advance,

Ravi.

[Former Member]

If it has to have some value, make it mandatory. You are not going to save anything or improve anything by not adding the INITIAL check.

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

Before your IF condition.You can always check for the values in S_value-low & S_value-high,to see whether it is initial or not & then go with your below IF condition.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Why do you want to avoid checking whether select-option is initial. That is the simplest way to handle this.

If you dont want that then my suggestion is use, describe table S_OPTION and get number of lines. You can check whether number of lines is zero or more than zero.

Ex:

data : l type i.

describe table s_option lines l.

if l = 0.

---

else.

---

endif.

Still checking for initial is the best option.

Regards,

Ramesh.

[Former Member]

Ravi,

There is no straight forward way of doing it. Probably you can append a dummy record in the SELECT OPTIONS, a blank record probably. However, you will get only those values that are blank.

Other than that you don't have an option other than checking the SELECT OPTIONS.

Regards,

Ravi

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[Former Member]

What are you Doing exactly...

[Former Member]

Hi

I think you can do it without to check th SO, if your SO is obligatory, if it isn't you should check your SO.

I believe the easier check is:

IF NOT SO[] IS INITIAL.

......

Max

[Former Member]

Without checking the initial condition, I don't think it is possible.

IF NOT s_value[] IS INITIAL
   AND some_value IN S_value.
  Logic1.
ELSE.
  Logic2.
ENDIF.

Just added the [] for s_value to check for the internal table not just the header.

[Former Member]

If it has to have some value, make it mandatory. You are not going to save anything or improve anything by not adding the INITIAL check.