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The simplest route to go from SELECT to RANGE

 2019-11-13

Today we’ll try to optimize the code to convert a SELECT into a RANGE

Let’s start with the simplest code, without any optimization attempt:
DATA: lt_kunnr TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF kunnr,

lr_kunnr TYPE RANGE OF kunnr,

wa_kunnr LIKE LINE OF lr_kunnr.

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <kunnr> LIKE LINE OF lt_kunnr.

SELECT kunnr

INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE lt_kunnr

FROM kna1.

wa_kunnr-sign = 'I'.

wa_kunnr-option = 'EQ'.

LOOP AT lt_kunnr ASSIGNING <kunnr>.

wa_kunnr-low = <kunnr>.

APPEND wa_kunnr TO lr_kunnr.

ENDLOOP.

7 commands

4 variabls

15 lines

Around 8 years ago I suggested that this could be improved:

DATA: r_kunnr TYPE RANGE OF kunnr,

wa_kunnr LIKE LINE OF r_kunnr.

SELECT kunnr AS low

INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE r_kunnr

FROM kna1.

wa_kunnr-sign = 'I'.

wa_kunnr-option = 'EQ'.

MODIFY r_kunnr FROM wa_kunnr TRANSPORTING sign option WHERE low <> ''.
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4 commands

2 variables

10 lines

Meanwhile, with ABAP 7.40, manipulating internal tables became much simpler:
DATA r_kunnr TYPE RANGE OF kunnr.

SELECT kunnr AS low

INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE r_kunnr

FROM lfa1.

r_kunnr = VALUE #( FOR wa IN r_kunnr

option = 'EQ' sign = 'I'

( low = wa-low ) ).

2 commands

1 variables!

9 lines

But then Sérgio Fraga showed me that SQL also got better and now this can be done:

DATA r_kunnr TYPE RANGE OF kunnr.

SELECT 'EQ' AS option, 'I' AS sign, kunnr AS low

INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE @r_kunnr

FROM lfa1.

1 command!

1 variable!

5 lines

Not bad! The only possible improvement would be declaring that variable inline. But I don’t know how it could be done.

Update: Gabriel showed that it is indeed possible to declare the variable inline:

SELECT 'I' AS sign, 'EQ' AS option, kunnr AS low, kunnr AS high

INTO TABLE @DATA(r_kunnr)

FROM lfa1.

It is crucial that all the 4 fields are explicitly listed (HIGH too) in this order for the inline internal table generated to be
considered as a valid RANGE. Thank you Gabriel!

1 command!

0 variables!

3 lines!

The 7 commands, 4 variables and 15 lines are now reduced down to 1 command and 3 lines. I dare say that now it is finally
impossible to further simplify this.

Greetings from Abapinho.

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