Table Declaration

[Former Member]

Can anyone tell me what is there in declaring a table with a * as prefix with table name.

ex:

TABLES: *MARA.

Thanx in advance.

[Former Member]

this declares a workarea for table MARA.

but this usage is obsolete now

[Former Member]

Hi

In SE11 if u type *MARA and if u press F4 then it will search for all tables that contains string MARA.

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Regards

Nilesh

[alex_m]

Its a work area, u can find in lot of std program. But now its absolete.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Just like work area

Thanks

Sunil

[Former Member]

Thats an Obsolete command

This statement declares an <b>additional table work area</b> *table_wa, whose data type, like that of normal TABLES statements of flat, structured data type table_wa, is copied from the ABAP Dictionary.

The additional table work area can be used like the normal table work area. This applies in particular to obsolete short forms of Open SQL statements.

--sap help

santhosh

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Kaluvala Santhosh

[Former Member]

If you declare the tables using tables statement and put a * before it then a work area is created automatically with all the fields of mara ... but instead you can create a workarea of your own ..with the fields that you need... or create a work area of the type structure that you may be using in your program....

[Former Member]

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Jayant

[Former Member]

Hi biswaranjan,

1. This is actually a facility provided in abap syntax.

2. It is usually checked while saving a record.

3. For eg.

If we have one variable

EKKO

and another *EKKO

(They both are same only, with same structure)

(but two different variables)

4. The functional meaning, for usage purpose,

of *EKKO is OLDEKKO.

5. While saving the transaction,

the data is saved only if there is any change

in the values.

IF EKKO <> *EKKO.

*--- SAVE

ELSE.

MESSAGE 'NO DATA CHANGED'

ENDIF.

6. We can aswell use any other variale

eg. oldekko

oekko

myekko

etc,

7. But for business meaning,

R/3 has the facility for *

*----

---

1. we can use almost everywhere.

2. just copy paste

report abc.

*----

---

TABLES : T001.

TABLES : *T001.

DATA : ITAB LIKE EKKO.

DATA : *ITAB LIKE EKKO.

DATA : NUM TYPE I.

DATA : *NUM TYPE I.

regards,

amit m.

[Former Member]

Hi,

It is nothing but, the table names ends with mara. For example, there are tables like CONT01_Mara, TWISPC_MARA. If u declare a table statement such as

Tables: *mara. It creates work area for all tables that ends with mara.

Try this.

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Regards,

U. Uma