What is a collect statement? How is it different from append?

[Former Member]

hi,

What is a collect statement? How is it different from append?

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[Sougata]

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[Former Member]

Simple example :

Collect - when ever non numeric columns equal then it sums numeric value otherwise it works like append statement.

suppose you have internal table :

data : begin of itab occurs 0,

field1(3) type c, " -> Non numeric

field2 type i, " Numeric

end of itab.

itab-field1 = 'ABC'.

itab-field2 = 100.

collect itab.

itab-field1 = 'ABC'.

itab-field2 = 200.

collect itab.

loop at itab.

write:/ itab-field1,itab-field2.

endloop

output is : ABC 300

Since here collect will look at non numeric then it adds numeric columns.

data : begin of itab occurs 0,

field1(3) type c, " -> Non numeric

field2 type i, " Numeric

end of itab.

itab-field1 = 'ABC'.

itab-field2 = 100.

collect itab.

itab-field1 = 'ABD'.

itab-field2 = 200.

collect itab.

loop at itab.

write:/ itab-field1,itab-field2.

endloop

output is : ABC 100

ABD 200

Here it works like Append statement

I hope you got it

Thanks

Seshu