How to assign values to a work area which is a Field Symbol?

Question

Hello Experts!
I really need your help! this is the problem:
I need to assign values to fields into a work area which is a field symbol. The values come from a flat file I uploaded and as I can't know the length I had to build the structure dynamically ( That's why I'm using FS). Each field comes from the file separated by ';', I tried using the SPLIT sentence:
"SPLIT text AT ';' INTO TABLE <dyn_table>." but the values are assigned vertically into the same field instead of horizontally into each field of the table(field-symbol table).
I know the name of the field dynamically
(a TEXT + number) and I know I can't do this
<dyn_wa>-TEXT1 or field_name = 'TEXT1' <dyn_wa>-(field_name).... ohhh I'm blocked, I don't seem to find the answer, please help!
Thanks in advance!!
Frinee

Answer 1

Now that you have a table with the values, you can move them to the work area.
data: begin of wa,
      fld1(20) type c,
      fld2(20) type c,
      fld3(20) type c,
*     and so on
      end of wa.
data: istr type table of string with header line.
field-symbols: <fs>.
split text at ';' into table istr.
loop at istr.
assign component sy-tabix of structure wa to <fs>.
if sy-subrc <> 0.
exit.
endif.
<fs> = istr.
endloop.
write:/ wa-fld1, wa-fld2, wa-fld3.
Now, WA has the values in a horizontal fashion.
Regards,
Rich Heilman