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[Former Member]

please tell me the meaning for the follwing 2 statements. why do we use tilde.what is the purpose of tilde .

1. LGNUM like ltap-LGNUM,

T173 TYPE C VALUE '~',

2 SELECT

ltap~LGNUM INTO TABLE GT_DATA2

thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

To indicate that LGNUM is a field of table LTAP.

i.e. '~' stands for relationship

[Former Member]

Hi,

Tild is used while using joins in the select query.

1. In this T173 is assigned a default value tild.Based on requirement you are doing this.

2. In select statement when you use joins you have to use tild .This is the syntax.

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[Former Member]

hi

'~'(tild) is used for selecting data from your main table.

And u write it like mara~matnr so u specifies that u want to select matnr field from mara.

thats it.

I hope so this can help you in your problem.

thanks.

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[Former Member]

Hi,

1. T173 TYPE C VALUE '~'

<b>For the above statement, it means T173 is a variable with value '~'.</b>

2. LGNUM like ltap-LGNUM

<b>For the above statement, it means Itap is a table with field LGNUM.</b>

3. SELECT

ltap~LGNUM INTO TABLE GT_DATA2

<b>In the above statement, u r taking only LGNUM field eventhough it contain many fields in it.</b>

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[Former Member]

hi,

1. LGNUM like ltap-LGNUM,

means ur creating a variable which takes the reference of existing object like itap-lgnum.

generally for existing abap objects only we use LIKE keyword.

for ex: matnr like mara-matnr. /// where mara is a standard sap table and matnr is the filed of mara. here we r creating a field which is like matnr in mara.

2.T173 TYPE C VALUE '~',

T173 is a character variable which is assigned with a character '~'. here we are creating a varaiable so we are using TYPE keyword. TYPE keyword generally used for creating varaiable with respect to standard data types in SAP.

3.SELECT

ltap~LGNUM INTO TABLE GT_DATA2

here using select st we are passing data of lgnum field of Itap table into internal table GT_DATA2.

select statement is used for selecting values from database table and passing to user defined tables [internal tables].

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with regards,

Suresh Aluri.