Sorting Date and Time

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

I have requirement to sort date and time fiields in an internal table.

The internal table looks something like this during runtime.

Line Objectclass UDATE UTIME OBJECTID CHANGENR CHANGE_IND

8 ISU_EEIN 20080305 144814 000000000111 0000035262 I

9 ISU_EEIN 20080305 145735 000000000112 0000035281 I

10 ISU_EEIN 20080305 151418 000000000113 0000035319 I

11 ISU_EEIN 20080305 154931 000000000114 0000035378 I

12 ISU_EEIN 20080305 155002 000000000115 0000035389 I

13 ISU_EEIN 20080305 162803 000000000116 0000035400 I

14 ISU_EEIN 20080306 095028 000000000113 0000035450 U

15 ISU_EEIN 20080306 123835 000000000117 0000035613 I

16 ISU_EEIN 20080306 133532 000000000118 0000035628 I

Now if you observe Line 10 and Line 14.

OBJECT ID has two entries. One with Change_Ind 'I' on 05.03.2008 and 'U' on 06.03.2008 ,

so here I need to have only ie... Line 14 for objectid 113 after sorting and deleting.

The current sort stmt which i am using is not solving the purpose,

Can you guys help me as how to achieve the result?

Awaiting your replies.

Regards,

Vinay

[Former Member]

hi,

after select statement

use sort itab by field1 field2 descending.

delete adjacent duplicates from table itab comparing field1.

regards ,

venkat.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Did not achieve the desired,

Just for your information the internal table is as follows.

objuectclas udate utime objectid changenr change_ind

ISU_EEIN 20080305 144814 000000000111 0000035262 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 145735 000000000112 0000035281 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 151418 000000000113 0000035319 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 154931 000000000114 0000035378 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 155002 000000000115 0000035389 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 162803 000000000116 0000035400 I

ISU_EEIN 20080306 095028 000000000113 0000035450 U

ISU_EEIN 20080306 123835 000000000117 0000035613 I

ISU_EEIN 20080306 133532 000000000118 0000035628 I

If i use the delete statements only 1 entry will remain.

Because i have to have only the latest record if it was updated,

since document 113 was updated on 06.03.2008. I should have only one record.

My result should be as follows.

ISU_EEIN 20080305 144814 000000000111 0000035262 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 145735 000000000112 0000035281 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 154931 000000000114 0000035378 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 155002 000000000115 0000035389 I

ISU_EEIN 20080305 162803 000000000116 0000035400 I

ISU_EEIN 20080306 095028 000000000113 0000035450 U

ISU_EEIN 20080306 123835 000000000117 0000035613 I

ISU_EEIN 20080306 133532 000000000118 0000035628 I

[Clemenss]

Hi Vinay,

hope I get you right: You want to reduce the internal table to the last operation on one object id.

Arrange the fields in itab structure like

Objectclass OBJECTID UDATE UTIME CHANGENR CHANGE_IND

then create a second table itab2 with the same structure.

sort itab.
loop at itab.
  at end of OBJECTID.
    append itab to itab2.
  endat.
endloop.

itab[] = itab2[].

Now you have what you want: Only one entry per Objectclass OBJECTID.

Regards,

Clemens

[Former Member]

Hi Clemens,

50% achieved, but I need to retain the values of the date and time and changenr. Once they are copied to itab2,

the values are set to '*' . Any pointer as to how to retain the values.