Explicitly destroy an object in ABAP

[Former Member]

Hi,

i like to destroy an Object explicitly. After the paricular statment the object must be destroyed.

if i set the reference of the object to null.when the object will be deleted? immediately or during automatic garbage collection.

Thanks and regards,

Prakash.

[former_member188685]

Hi,

you can use FREE.

<b>data: G_GRID TYPE REF TO CL_GUI_ALV_GRID.</b>

<b>CALL METHOD G_GRID->FREE.</b>

Regards

Vijay

[former_member188685]

Hi,

you can do in OLE also.

INCLUDE OLE2INCL. 
DATA EXCEL TYPE OLE2_OBJECT. 
CREATE OBJECT EXCEL 'Excel.Application'. 
FREE   OBJECT EXCEL.

in OO ABAP

FREE OBJECT <b>OBJ</b> .

here OBJ is object reference to some class.

Regards

Vijya

[Former Member]

DATA EXCEL TYPE REF TO OLE2_OBJECT.

.

.*populate the reference EXCEL

.

.

FREE OBJECT EXCEL.

This is what my scenario?.i getting the syntax error for this? can you help me in this issue?.

syntax error:""EXCEL cannot be a table, a reference, a string, or contain any of these objects."

[former_member188685]

Hi Prakash,

check this code(copy +paste),...

INCLUDE OLE2INCL.

DATA EXCEL TYPE OLE2_OBJECT.

CREATE OBJECT EXCEL 'Excel.Application'.

FREE OBJECT EXCEL.

Do that and check it once.

Regards

Vijay

[former_member188685]

INCLUDE OLE2INCL.

<b>*DATA EXCEL <b>TYPE REF TO</b> OLE2_OBJECT.</b> "wrong

DATA EXCEL TYPE OLE2_OBJECT. "Correct

CREATE OBJECT EXCEL 'Excel.Application'.

FREE OBJECT EXCEL.

Regards

Vijay

[Former Member]

Hi,

FREE OBJECT <Obj_Name>.

Regs,

Venkat Ramanan