Dereferencing in ABAP?

[former_member1330001]

Hi Friends,

I was going through a Standard Program when i came across an ASSIGN statement that goes something like this...

ASSIGN i_rsthie_rep-ptr->* TO <FS>

What does this mean?. Are they trying to assign the value of the structure directly to a field symbol?. Is 'ptr' a keyword?.

[athavanraja]

ptr is not a keyword.

it is assigning structure i_rsthie_rep-ptr->* to field symbol <FS>

check the abap key word documentation for ASSIGN - mem_area - dref->*

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Hi Tamilarasan,

To add to what Raja wrote, 'ptr' is a field of i_rsthie and this statement is assigning reference (address) of this field to field-symbol <FS>.

Cheers,

Sanjeev

[athavanraja]

is your question answered?

Raja

[former_member1330001]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Regards,

Tamilarasan.