syntax for report statemnt..?

[Former Member]

please tell me why is ( ) required around sy-repid? in:

REPORT (SY-REPID)

NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING

LINE-COUNT 65

LINE-SIZE 255

MESSAGE-ID OIUH.

Thanks

Charles

[raja_thangamani]

Because Report Name will be populated <b>at runtime dynamically</b>. so it's mentioned with in (). REPORT (SY-REPID).

Raja T

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Raja Thangamani

[RichHeilman]

I've actually never seen a REPORT statement that had the report name as a variable, but that is the reason why the parenthsis are required. I didn't know that that actually worked.

You see, usually the report statement is like so.

REPORT  ZRICH0001.

where ZRICH0001 is simply the static report name, but in your example, SY-REPID is a system variable, and you don't want the report name to be "SY-REPID", you want it to be the value of SY-REPID. That is why you need the parenthesis, this tells the runtime that the variable value is to be used.

Again, I've never seen this done before.

Regards,

Rich Heilman