RE:delete statment

[Former Member]

Hi all,

For eg my internal table has 1000 records.I want only the 1st 300 records .Rest of the record i want to delete .How to do this.

Thanks in advance,

Alex.

[kiran_k8]

Alex,

loop at itab.

if sy-tabix GE 300.

delete itab.

endif.

endloop.

But deleting the itab depending on the sy-tabix is not logically right,I think.Generally we do w.r.t a field.

K.Kiran.

[varma_narayana]

Hii..

The better way is:

Declare a Seperate Itab:

Eg:

DATA: IT_TEMP TYPE TABLE OF <SAME STRUCTURE>.

APPEND LINES OF ITAB FROM 1 TO 300 TO IT_TEMP.

REFRESH ITAB.

**Now the First 300 records will be present in the table IT_TEMP.

<b>reward if Helpful</b>

[Former Member]

Instead of using loop endloop, we can try something like this to improve performan e.

Describe itab lines size. " get the total lines of table

if size GE 300 .

append lines of itab to itab_tmp from 1 to 300.

refresh itab.

itab[] = itab_tmp[].

else.

do nothing.

endif.

Code mentioned may not be correct syntectically but try this logic for better performance.

Regards

Sushil

[Former Member]

try this

delete itab from 1 to 300.

[Former Member]

HI,

Sort the internal table for your first 300 records.

then

delete <ITAB> from 301 to 1000.

rewards if uesful,

regards,

'Nazeer'

[Former Member]

Hi Nazeer,

What u r saying is exactly correct.

This is my small logic.

loop at itab.

if sy-tabix <= 300.

append itab to new_itab.

else.

free itab.

exit.

endif.

endloop.

Regards,

Surya

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Alex

Assuming that you fill your itab using a SELECT statement you could restrict the number of records already here, e.g.:

  SELECT * FROM knb1 INTO TABLE gt_myitab UP TO gd_maxno ROWS
    WHERE bukrs = '1000'.

Alternatively you could either process only the required number of records or delete the obsolete ones:

  DATA:
    gt_myitab_x    TYPE ... .

  LOOP AT gt_myitab INTO ls_record FROM 1 TO gd_maxno.
" ...do processing

"   collect required records
    APPEND ls_record TO gt_myitab_x.    
  ENDLOOP.

  gt_myitab = gt_myitab_x.  " contains only gd_maxno records

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

Hi,

Before Deleting the make sure that you need to sort the internal table.

Loop at Itab.

If sy-index >=300.

Delete itab.

endif.

Endloop.

Thanks

Yogesh