Read Year from System Date & Compare - Assistance required

Question

Hi All,
I am trying to read only the year part from the system date & then checking if any entry exists in EKKO table (EKKO-BEDAT) for the year. I think i am making an error in my data declaration for V_YEAR & in my select statement (EKKO~BEDAT LIKE V_YEAR), not sure how to compare only the year part, can someone help.
DATA:
    V_EBELN TYPE EKPO-EBELN,
    V_YEAR  TYPE SY-DATUM.
CLEAR: V_EBELN, V_YEAR.
*Read year from system date
V_YEAR = SY-DATUM+0(4).
CONCATENATE '%' '%' '%' '%' V_YEAR INTO V_YEAR.
*Select section
SELECT SINGLE EKPO~EBELN INTO V_EBELN
FROM EKPO
  INNER JOIN EKKO
    ON EKPOEBELN = EKKOEBELN
  INNER JOIN LFM1
    ON EKKOLIFNR = LFM1LIFNR
   WHERE EKKO~LIFNR = LFM1-LIFNR
     AND EKKO~BEDAT LIKE V_YEAR
     AND EKPO~LOEKZ = SPACE.

Answer 1

Hi Sougata,
Thanks for the inputs, but it is not working:
Move:      sy-datum(4) to v_begda, -> This reads the system year 2008
        '0101'     to v_begda,  -> This changes 2008 to 0101
        sy-datum(4) to v_endda, -> This reads system year i.e. 2008
        '1231'     to v_endda. -> This changes 2008 to 1231
Also in the select statement
AND EKKO~BEDAT between v_begda and v_endda 
This would not work, as EKKO-BEDAT is in year month date format.
So can you please clarify why we are assigining 0101 & 1231 & also how we can compare only the year in EKKO-BEDAT with System Year
Update
I tried to
concatenate '0101 into v_begda.
concatenate '1231' into v_endda.
but system prompts "charlike-field" expected after "'0101'"
Can you please advice?
Edited by: Vivek on Jan 5, 2008 7:59 PM