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Macro definition of '*' and usage

yjiang
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Advisor

‎2012 Jul 31 8:48 AM

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hi experts,

I am investigating a report, and confused by a macro application.

The macro definition part:

DATA: CATALOG LIKE TCATALOG OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
      MEMORY_ID(30) VALUE 'SAPLSTXD'.

DEFINE *.
  IMPORT CATALOG FROM MEMORY ID MEMORY_ID.
END-OF-DEFINITION.

The application part:

TABLES: VBUK, *VBUK.

what does *VBUK mean? i can't understand it with the direct substituation.

thanks a lot.

cheers,

yang

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former_member209818
Active Contributor

‎2012 Aug 01 12:24 PM

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Hi Yang,

I think, the * in macro definition and and tables declaration is not atall related.

When you are saying Tables *table, that means, an additional table work area *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.

The Tables * declaration is now Obsolete in ECC 6.0

Hope this helps..