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[Former Member]

Hello

i did not understand this what is this key word if not intial and if if intail are going to perform

[Former Member]

Hi,

if not initial means it is having some value.

if initial means this field is empty and not containing any value.

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Ruchika

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[Former Member]

hi,

If not initial means there r some records existing in the table for the condition u have given.

If initial means there r no records.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Initial: Initial value

Not initial: Defined value

In case of internal tables initial means no records or empty and not initial means contains records

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Younus

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[Former Member]

Hi,

if u say if not initial, when u go to debugging mode u will find some value associated with the variable. like u can say flag is set.

if initial then it is zero .

when u go to debugging mode u can understand alot better .

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Sathish

[anversha_s]

hi,

suppose there is an itab.

thn we want chk whthr it has data or not.

use this.

if not itab[] is initial.
*itab has data.
endif.

similarly we can chk the variables.

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Anversha

[Former Member]

Hi,

Check this code,

data : flag1 type i value '1'.

If flag1 is initial.

write : 'Flag1 dont having any value'.

Elseif flag1 is not initial.

write : 'Flag1 having some value'.

endif.

Initial means it Contains No value.

Not Initial Means It contains some values.

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