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How to delete multiple lines from <itab>?

Posted on Oct 26, 2006 at 05:55 PM 318 Views

Hi Experts,

I have two field-symbols internal tables <itab>, <items>. I want to delete all records in <itab> if they are existing in <items>. I can complete it by doing LOOP but it's time-consuming. Is there any better way to do it?

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Tom

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    Posted on Oct 26, 2006 at 05:57 PM
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    Hi,

    I don't think there if there is any other technique to solve other than using LOOP AT ...

    Thanks,

    Naren

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    Posted on Oct 26, 2006 at 06:02 PM
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    You could use the following

    DELETE itab WHERE field like '*'.

    or

    DESCRIBE TABLE itab LINES idx2.

    DELETE itab FROM 1 TO idx2.

    Regards,

    Dennis

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    Posted on Oct 26, 2006 at 06:02 PM
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    If you do a binary search on the second table, it won't take as much time. If there are multiple records in the second table for records in the first table you can use an indexed read to get rid of those.

    Rob

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