READ TABLE - transport_options
Short Reference
ABAP Syntax ... [COMPARING { { comp1
comp2 ... }|{ALL FIELDS}|{NO FIELDS} }]
[TRANSPORTING { { comp1 comp2 ... }|{ALL
FIELDS} }] ... .
What does it do? The addition COMPARING compares the specified
components comp1 comp2 ... (or the subareas or attributes) in a
found row before they are transported with the corresponding components
of the work area. If ALL FIELDS is specified, all components are
compared. If no NO FIELDS is specified, no components are
compared. If the content of the compared components is identical,
sy-subrc is set to 0. Otherwise it is set to 2. The found row is
assigned to the work area independently of the result of the comparison.
If the addition TRANSPORTING is specified, only the specified
components comp1 comp2 ... (and their subareas) in the found row
are assigned to the corresponding components of the work area (or their
subareas). If ALL FIELDS is specified, all the components are
assigned.
COMPARING must be specified before TRANSPORTING . The
components comp1 comp2 ... are specified according to the rules
in the section Specifying Components . This
is subject to the restriction that after TRANSPORTING , attributes
of classes cannot be addressed using the object component selector.
Example ABAP Coding The READ statement uses a
WHILE loop to read all rows of the table sflight_tab one
after the other using the primary table index in the work area
sflight_wa . Only fields that are also in the output are transported.
The COMPARING addition is used to select all flights in which no
seats have yet been booked.
DATA: sflight_tab TYPE SORTED TABLE OF sflight
WITH UNIQUE KEY carrid connid fldate,
sflight_wa LIKE LINE OF sflight_tab,
output TYPE TABLE OF string WITH EMPTY KEY.
DATA subrc TYPE sy-subrc.
SELECT *
FROM sflight
INTO TABLE sflight_tab
WHERE carrid = 'LH'.
subrc = sy-subrc.
WHILE subrc = 0.
sflight_wa-seatsocc = 0.
READ TABLE sflight_tab
INDEX sy-index
INTO sflight_wa COMPARING seatsocc
TRANSPORTING carrid
connid
fldate
seatsocc.
CASE sy-subrc.
WHEN 0.
APPEND |{ sflight_wa-carrid } { sflight_wa-connid } {
sflight_wa-fldate } { sflight_wa-seatsocc } <(>
<<)>----!|
TO output.
subrc = sy-subrc.
WHEN 2.
APPEND |{ sflight_wa-carrid } { sflight_wa-connid } {
sflight_wa-fldate } { sflight_wa-seatsocc }|
TO output.
subrc = 0.
WHEN 4 OR 8.
EXIT.
ENDCASE.
ENDWHILE.
cl_demo_output=>display( output ).
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