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Tables and Table Work Areas

The TABLES < name> statement declares an ABAP/4 Dictionary table in the ABAP/4 program and allocates a table work area with the same structure of as that of < name>.

• In the above example, the SELECT statement reads table SBOOK line by line and places each line read in the table work area SBOOK.
  
• ENDSELECT is used to indicate the end point of a block of statements that are used with the SELECT statement.
  
• The statements that are included between the SELECT and ENDSELECT are executed for EACH record read from the specified table, e.g. SBOOK in this example.

Authored by: Roger Hayen © Central Michigan Univeristy and/or © SAP America, Inc. All rights reserved.