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RANGES

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Obsolete Syntax

RANGES rtab FOR dobj [OCCURS n].

Effect

Obsolete declaration of a ranges table. This statement (not allowed in classes) is a short form of the following statement sequence which is also not allowed in classes:

DATA: BEGIN OF rtab OCCURS {10|n},
        sign   TYPE c LENGTH 1,
        option TYPE c LENGTH 2,
        low    LIKE dobj,
        high   LIKE dobj,
      END OF rtab.

Declares an internal table rtab with the structure of a selection table and a header line. Without the addition OCCURS, the initial memory requirement of the ranges table is set to ten rows. The addition OCCURS can be used to specify a numeric literal or a numeric constant n to determine a different initial memory requirement.

Notes

The statement RANGES is replaced by the addition TYPE|LIKE RANGE OF of the statements TYPES and DATA. If used, these declare ranges tables without header lines.
The sign and option columns of a ranges table declared using RANGES are not related to data types in ABAP Dictionary. For a ranges table defined in ABAP Dictionary, these columns are based on the data elements DDSIGN and DDOPTION.