Why Read and Select Statements

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus!

I am doing sap abap course.I Dont know When do we use the Read statement and when we go for select statement.And what is the purpose of cursor statement. Can you Share about the Statements in abap and Uses of those.Its very use full to me to Know Briefly and Clearly.I hope you can help me in this part.

Thanks in advance.

P.Anand.

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Edited by: kishan P on Dec 20, 2011 2:22 PM

[madhu_vadlamani]

Hi Anand,

Press f1 and see the documentation. <= Your reply should have stopped here.*

READ :reading record from any type of internal table using index or with fields.

Using read statement,you can only read single record But using loop,you can read more than .

For cursor statement go to through this doc.

[Cursor statement|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/fc/eb3b23358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm]

Regards,

Madhu.

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Edited by: kishan P on Dec 20, 2011 2:25 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

check the below link for cursor statements.

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Regards,

Ram.

Edited by: kishan P on Dec 20, 2011 2:27 PM

[Former Member]

Hello friend,

Welcome to SAP.

In simple words

Read is used in processing of internal table and

Select is used in fetching records from data base table.

These type of posts will be already available friend. So please search in SDN for more posts regarding this or use F1 help which you can find the description with examples.

Thanks,

Sri Hari

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Edited by: kishan P on Dec 20, 2011 2:27 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

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[Former Member]

Hi,

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G.Aditya

Edited by: kishan P on Dec 20, 2011 2:30 PM

[Former Member]

If i want to know about those statements, i read up on the matter by selecting and using the correct search terms in google.Then i use my cursor to scroll up and down and select the proper search hit.