reading a table until i find a value

[Former Member]

I need to read a talbe to find material price for the current price. if it isn't found i need to basically loop until i do find a price. do you have some sample code to acheive this?

thanks

[Former Member]

loop at itab.
  if itab-price eq CURRENT_PRICE.
     *do some thing
     EXIT.
  endif.
endif.

[Former Member]

I need to get the price for the current month and if it is blank then I need to go to the previous month.

[Former Member]

First read the database table in an internal table using where Select and WHERE clause to identify the records.

Then loop at itab where price eq CURRENT_PRICE.

• process further - for ex copy to another internal table

append itab to current_price_table.

endloop.

Please reward points if useful.

[Former Member]

so would you 1st select all records for that material and put into a table. I then need to see if there is a price fo the current and if not i need to loop until I find a price. Is there anyway to limit what come back in my select becuase if I have the current price fo rth emonth I don't need to get all the records but maybe this is faster than reading 1 record at a time

[alison_lloyd]

how about selecting all the current month prices then checking if the ones you want are there, any that aren't save to a separate table then for all those do a second select to the database to get all previous month prices.

Are you using full keys for your DB selects? If you can use select single then loop/select single is not much different from selectfor all entries

[Former Member]

I am doing a select for all entries and putting into an internal table.

[former_member181962]

loop at itab where <YOur condition>.

exit.

endloop.

[Former Member]

Hi MICK,

See if this can be useful.

data: variable like currentprice.

move current price into variable.

select keyfield materialprice values from dbtable into table internaltable

where filteringcondition1(column name of the dbtable) = value of

filteringcondition1.

loop at internaltable where key field = keyfield value and

material price = current price.

perform actions need

to be done when material price

is equal to current price.

endloop.

Award points if useful.

Regds,

Ravi Sankara Kumar.

[sunilachyut]

Same as Ravi's except you dont need the exit in the loop. If the where condition is not satisfied it wont even go inside the loop.

loop at itab where <YOur condition>.

Record is found, process your code here.

endloop.

hith

Sunil Achyut

[Former Member]

I think I exlained incorectly. I don't know my material price and need to loop until I find a value so i fiest need to look at the current month and if not found keep going back. would i just subtract 1 from the month and do a nested loop?