Alternative for Append Lines of

[Former Member]

Hi techies,

I have two internal tables  .

I need append itab 2 with the entries of one.

I don't want to overwrite.

I want to append.

Append lines is not working.

Suggest me alternative of append lines.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

loop at itab2 into wa2.

wa1-field = wa2-field.

append wa1 to itab1.

endloop.

[raymond_giuseppi]

Can you elaborate on :

Append lines is not working.

As APPEND LINES OF jtab [FROM idx1] [TO idx2] [USING KEY keyname] usually do the job ?

If your itab is a sorted type of itab, then you may be required to use INSERT LINES OF jtab [FROM idx1] [TO idx2] [USING KEY keyname]

Regards,

Raymond

[Former Member]

append lines will work on a standard table. Once it is not standard, you can't use it. So first show us your code

[Former Member]

Please check code and suggest accordingly

[PeterJonker]

Are table *Sys* and logfile of the same structure ? They must be otherwise it won't work.

Do you get an error message when this statement is performed ?

[Former Member]

what does the syntax asdf-*sys* mean?

[Former Member]

They are of the same type holding one structure as LINE(255) .

[Former Member]

*SYS*  is used when call 'system' is used to capture the command.

Even am not very clear regaring the statement  :

CALL SYSTEM ID 'COMMAND'  FIELD uxcmdfile ID 'TAB FIELD xoutput-*sys* '

[SuhaSaha]

Even am not very clear regaring the statement  :
CALL SYSTEM ID 'COMMAND'  FIELD uxcmdfile ID 'TAB FIELD xoutput-*sys* '

Is it a custom code? If yes, then why are you using something which you don't understand?

Anyway C-calls should not be used in customer code unless there is no suitable alternative available. Can you tell us what business case do you want to achieve?

- Suhas

[Former Member]

i have a logfile in which am maintaining my log , and i want to append the error lines which are captured in xoutput-*sys*   .

it is customcode , but developer is not me .

[Former Member]

"tabl-*sys* is the outdated and undocumented way of writing tabl[] in order to address the table body of an internal table with header line. That's all." described by Horst Keller inhttp://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2013/03/06/a-word-about-call-system

[Former Member]

Well I think that this one answered the question - as xoutput-*sys* is another way to access the header line, one can't touch it's lines, as it has none.

[custodio_deoliveira]

Have you tried:

append lines of xoutput to logfile.

Can't see a reason for this not to work.

Cheers,

Custodio

[Former Member]

do you know the structure of xoutput? It probably is not a flat structure

[custodio_deoliveira]

He said they are the same structure, no?

Praveen Bindla wrote:

They are of the same type holding one structure as LINE(255) .

[Former Member]

i have edited my code with loop append endloop.

hope this should work .

can you techies explain me what the line mean :

CALL 'SYSTEM' ID 'COMMAND' FIELD uxcmdfile  ID 'TAB' FIELD xoutput-*sys*.

what it will do ?

can you explain me ?