*vbak??

[Former Member]

Hi~~ let me ask you something.

Sometimes, I can see the code like this.

TABLES: VBAP, *VBAP,
        VBAPD, *VBAPD,
        VBPV,                          " Produktvorschlag
        CABN,                          " Merkmale
        CABNT,                       " Merkmalsbezeichnung
        CEPCT,                         " Profitcenter-Text
        *COBL, COBL,                   " Kontierungsblock

usaly, in user-exit,

What is ths *vbap? what's the use of *? in this satement~

please explain to me and thanks in advance.

Best Regards

Kyung Woo.

[Former Member]

Hi, as I know, you can seem the *VBAP as another work area same to TABLES: VBAP.

After defined them,

TABLES: VBAP, *VBAP.

you can use *VBAP just like the way you use VBAP.

You can reference some standard application of SAP, like SAPMV45A.

Hope it will be helpful.

[Former Member]

What zhenglin said is right.

SAP standard code uses a lot of variables to store current data, old data, etc. So u will mostly see vbap and *vbap.

It is as good as vbap and vbap1.

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[Former Member]

Hello Kyung Woo,

This is one of the undocumented ways of data declarations. As I had mentioned in , the * notation is used to contain the temporary values for a table work area.

This need not be limited to the Standard SAP Code. In your programs you would very often declare temporary work areas like -

tables vbak.
.
.
data lt_vbak like table of vbak.
data ls_vbak like line  of vbak.
.
.
.
data ls_temp_vbak like vbak.
.

It might be a good idea to have <b>*vbak</b> instead of <i>ls_temp_vbak</i>. That of course depends on the naming conventions you would want to follow for all your custom developments. It is just a convenient and more readable way of declaring the temporary structure.

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.