Help on Read

Question

Hi,
Need some help on read statement.
I need to read the records which starts with some character and need to specify the same in where condition as below.
read table i_itab
     into w_itab
     with key objnr = w_itab-objnr
          stat CS 'E'
          Binary search.
Getting error as should not use CS in the read statement. How to read the records which starts with letter 'E' only in this case.
Can anyone help me out in this.
Regards,
Ram

Answer 1

You should be able to do a binary search to get the first record and then do indexed reads to get subsequent records.
Something like:
DATA tab_index LIKE sy-tabix.
SORT i_itab BY objnr stat.
IF sy-subrc = 0.
  tab_index = sy-tabix.
ENDIF.
WHILE sy-subrc = 0.
  IF w_itab-stat CS 'E'.
* process record.
  ENDIF.
  tab_index = tab_index + 1.
READ TABLE i_itab INDEX tab_index.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
  IF i_itab-objnr <> w_itab-objnr.
      sy-subrc = 9.
    ENDIF.
  ENDIF.
ENDWHILE.
Rob
Message was edited by: Rob Burbank