08-05-2008 12:05 PM
Can any body tell
What is difference between Field Symbol and Wrok area?
Regards
laskhmi
08-05-2008 12:07 PM
Hi
Work area means is a sructure with the help you can do data manipulation in Internal tables.
You must retrieve data from Itab to Work area before any modifcation.
At run time you can assign any data type to field symbols.
Aditya
08-05-2008 12:06 PM
Hi,
Welcome to SDN
Field symbol
Field symbols are placeholders or symbolic names for other fields.They are nothing but the pointer equivalent of C in ABAP.
for detail concept and worked out example you can check,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb3860358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm
Work Area
It is noting but the line type of an internal table. since you can't directly access the data of an internal table, you have to do it with the help of its corresponding workarea.
for detail concept and worked out example you can check,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/Helpdata/EN/fc/eb36a1358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm
Regards,
anirban
08-05-2008 12:07 PM
field symbol : this something which is acting a pointer pointing to any memory or structure or data.
workarea: this comes in picture while using internal tables,
this consists of single data.
one by one data is being processed.
08-05-2008 12:07 PM
Hi
Work area means is a sructure with the help you can do data manipulation in Internal tables.
You must retrieve data from Itab to Work area before any modifcation.
At run time you can assign any data type to field symbols.
Aditya
08-05-2008 12:08 PM