ABAP RANGES Statement syntax and functionality in SAP

RANGES

Short Reference

ABAP Syntax(Obsolete) RANGES rtab FOR dobj [OCCURS n].

What does it do? Obsolete declaration of a
ranges table . This statement (not allowed in classes) is a short form of the following statement sequence which is also not allowed in classes:
DATA: BEGIN OF rtab OCCURS {10|n},
sign TYPE c LENGTH 1,
option TYPE c LENGTH 2,
low LIKE dobj,
high LIKE dobj,
END OF rtab.
Declares an internal table rtab with the structure of a selection table and a header line . Without the addition OCCURS , the initial memory requirement of the ranges table is set to ten rows. You can use the addition OCCURS
to specify a numeric literal or a numeric constant n to determine a different initial memory requirement.

Latest notes: The statement RANGES is replaced by the addition TYPE|LIKE RANGE OF of the statements
TYPES and DATA . If used, these declare ranges tables without header lines.
The sign and option columns of a range table declared using RANGES are not related to data types in ABAP Dictionary. For a ranges table defined in ABAP Dictionary, these columns are based on the data elements DDSIGN and DDOPTION .

ABAP RANGES Statement syntax, information and example SAP source code