how to delete a column from an internal table

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have an internal table which contains ten fields.

After few processing i want to delete few columns from the internal table which contains the data.

How can i do that?

Please reply it ASAP.

Thanks in advance

[Former Member]

Well, you can NOT delete a column of an internal table, all you can do is to delete the data in that column.

loop at itab into wa.
  wa-desired_column = space.
  modify itab from wa.
endloop.

[rahulkavuri]

hi

You cannot delete the columns.. declare another internal table with the final structure you want say ITAB2.

LOOP AT ITAB.

MOVE CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF ITAB TO ITAB2.
APPEND ITAB2.

ENDLOOP.

[dhruv_shah3]

Hi,

loop at itab1.
read table itab2 with key field2 = itab1-field1.
if sy-subrc = 0.
delete itab1 index sy-tabix.
endif.
endloop.

HTH

Regards,

Dhruv Shah