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Internal Tables and Extracts in Release 4.0

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Modification 1

New addition for MODIFY: TRANSPORTING f1 f2 ...

With the addition TRANSPORTING f1 f2 ... [WHERE cond] you can change the contents of certain fields in the MODIFY statement (selective field transport).

Modification 2

Unassigned field symbols for INSERT, SORT and AT

If the field symbol <fs> was not yet assigned (with ASSIGN), it is ignored in the following statements:

• INSERT <fs> INTO fg.
• SORT BY <fs>.
• SORT itab BY <fs>.
• AT NEW <fs>.
• AT END OF <fs>.

Modification 3

LOOP ... WHERE for unstructured row type

You can now formulate a WHERE condition using the TABLE LINE addition for tables without structured row type (for example tables with type I) (LOOP).

The same is true for the WHERE variant of the DELETE and MODIFY statements.