Sort Operation on Date and Time fields

[Former Member]

Dear All,

I am trying to SORT the data in descending order based on date and time. System is behaving weird and I am not able to get the actual results. Please suggest me regarding SORT operation on date and time fields.

Note: In my actual scenario my internal table has many fields along with date and time fields.

Code:

TYPES: BEGIN OF temp,

lv_date TYPE d,

lv_time TYPE t,

END OF temp.

DATA: itab TYPE TABLE OF temp,

wa TYPE temp.

wa-lv_date = '20101218'. " yyyymmdd

wa-lv_time = '050505'. " hhmmss

APPEND wa TO itab.

wa-lv_date = '20101219'.

wa-lv_time = '050504'.

APPEND wa TO itab.

wa-lv_date = '20101218'.

wa-lv_time = '050506'.

APPEND wa TO itab.

SORT itab STABLE BY lv_date lv_time DESCENDING.

LOOP AT itab INTO wa.

write:/ wa-lv_date, lv_time.

ENDLOOP.

Result: Date Time

20101218 050506

20101218 050505

20101219 050504

Expected Result:

Date Time

20101219 050504

20101218 050506

20101218 050505

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

Somu.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Try this

SORT itab STABLE BY lv_date DESCENDING

lv_time DESCENDING.

Regards,

Madhukar Shetty

[Former Member]

Thanks for the solution. Jai ho SDN and the users.

[Former Member]

hai friend,

TYPES: BEGIN OF temp,

lv_date TYPE d,

lv_time TYPE t,

END OF temp.

DATA: itab TYPE TABLE OF temp,

wa TYPE temp.

wa-lv_date = '20101218'. " yyyymmdd

wa-lv_time = '050505'. " hhmmss

APPEND wa TO itab.

wa-lv_date = '20101219'.

wa-lv_time = '050504'.

APPEND wa TO itab.

wa-lv_date = '20101218'.

wa-lv_time = '050506'.

APPEND wa TO itab.

SORT itab by lv_time lv_date DESCENDING.

LOOP AT itab INTO wa.

write:/ wa-lv_date, wa-lv_time.

ENDLOOP.

do like this u can get the out put i checked also.

thanks ,

anji.

[Former Member]

Hi Soma,

The system is behaving correctly. How ? Let me explain....

When you write SORT ITAB component1 ASCENDING / DESCENDING , then the component1 of itab will be sorted in ascending or descending manner.

And here if you dont mention ASCENDING / DESCENDING, then by default it is sorted in the Ascending mode.

But in your case you have coded like this -:

SORT itab STABLE BY lv_date lv_time DESCENDING.

This means first itab will be sorted in Ascending mode for lv_date (from lower date to higher date) and then within the same date range, the table will be sorted in the descending mode for lv_time (From higher time to lower time).

But if you code like this -

SORT itab STABLE BY lv_date DESCENDING lv_time DESCENDING.

then both lv_date and lv_time will be sorted in descending mode.

Thanks

Deb