ABAP DELETE ITAB Statement syntax, information and example SAP source code

DELETE itab

Short Reference

ABAP Syntax DELETE { itab_line |
itab_lines |
duplicates }.

What does it do? This statement either deletes one or more rows itab_line or itab_lines specified with a table key or a table index, or it deletes adjacent duplicate rows duplicates .

System Fields
sy-subrc Meaning
0At least one row was deleted.
4No rows were deleted, since no appropriate row was found when deleting using a table key or when specifying a logical expression, the index specified when deleting using a table index was larger than the current number of rows, or no duplicate adjacent rows were found.
The system field sy-tabix is not set.

Latest notes: When deleting rows in an internal table, costs are incurred for updating all existing table keys
and table indexes . The primary key and all unique secondary keys are updated directly, whereas non-unique secondary keys are only updated if the rows to be deleted are contained within an updated part of a relevant index (
lazy update ). When deleting a row from a standard table using a secondary key, the primary table index in particular must be updated, and this requires a linear search.



Runtime Exceptions

Catchable Exceptions
CX_SY_ITAB_DYN_LOOP