Finding table name from field

Question

Hi,
I have a field name. Now i want to find to which table this field belongs to.
eg: I have field MATNR. Now in my program i want to find to which table this field belongs to.
How can this be done?
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regards,
Ashish Gupta

Answer 1

Hi,
Basically the same field is used in so many tables like mara,marc,mard,vbap...
But for matnr , MARA is the master table.It means entry should be there in mara table .but no need of entry in other tables like mrac,mard,vbap..etc.
But some times this value is picked from other tables also not only from mara to get other corresponding values like storage location or sales order number..etc.
Program may access other tables also depending on requirement.
so just check in the program from which database table this value is getting populated using SELECT stmt .
you can put breakpoint at all the select stmt and debugg the program.you will get noticed from which database table its getting populated and from which table its value getting processed.
Like suppose we use select stmt on vbap to get sales order number and then we goto MARD table to get corresponing storage location.
so finally we will get the value from MARD table.
just i will write simple code .
data:it_mara like mara occurs 0 with header line.
data:it_vbap  like vbap occurs 0 with header line.
data:it_mard  like mard occurs 0 with header line.
start-of-selection.
select * from mara into table it_mara up to 100 rows.
if not it_mara[] is initial.
select * from mara into table it_vbap
for all entries in it_mara
where matnr = it_mara-matnr.
endif.
if not it_vbap[] is initial.
select * from mard into table it_mard
for all entries in it_vbap
where matnr = it_vbap-matnr.
endif.
loop at it_mard.
write: /  it_mard-matnr,it_mard-lgort.
endloop.
so finally we are printing matnr from mard table eventhough matnr exists in mara table also.
Regds
Sivaparvathi
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