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Processing Statements for Internal Tables

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Reading internal tables

• READ TABLE

• LOOP AT

Filling internal tables

• INSERT

• COLLECT

• APPEND

Changing internal tables

• MODIFY

• DELETE

• SORT

Scanning internal tables

• FIND IN TABLE

• REPLACE IN TABLE

Interval join of internal tables

• PROVIDE

Notes

• How these statements are used to access individual components of internal tables is described in Internal Tables - comp1 comp2 ....

• Special variants of the statements shown here can access the last path node of a mesh path, instead of accessing directly specified internal tables.

• Internal tables can also be specified as a data source of a query in ABAP SQL.

• As well as the statements shown here, a range of obsolete processing statements exists for internal tables.

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READ TABLE itab

LOOP AT itab

INSERT itab

COLLECT

APPEND

MODIFY itab

DELETE itab

SORT itab

FIND IN TABLE itab

REPLACE IN TABLE itab

Interval Join of Internal Tables

Internal Tables - comp1 comp2 ...

Internal Tables - keyname