related to internal table

[Former Member]

An internal table ICODE contains the following entries:

field1 field2

-

---

John 12345

Alice 23478

Sam 54321

Bob 10000

IF NOT ICODE[] IS INITIAL.

SORT ICODE BY FIELD1 DESCENDING.

READ TABLE ICODE WITH KEY FIELD1 = 'Sam'.

WRITE: / SY-TABIX.

ENDIF.

What is the output of the above code after execution?

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

e) Sam

[Former Member]

A

[Former Member]

ans is a

[former_member386202]

Hi,

1 only

Regards,

Prashant

[Former Member]

a) 1

In the descending order 'Sam' will be the first entry.

The internal table will look like this:

field1 field2
------ -------
Sam    54321
John   12345
Bob    10000
Alice  23478

The code:

DATA: BEGIN OF icode occurs 4,
        field1(5) TYPE c,
        field2(5) TYPE n,
      END OF icode.

icode-field1 = 'John'.
icode-field2 = '12345'.
APPEND icode.

icode-field1 = 'Alice'.
icode-field2 = '23478'.
APPEND icode.

icode-field1 = 'Sam'.
icode-field2 = '54321'.
APPEND icode.

icode-field1 = 'Bob'.
icode-field2 = '10000'.
APPEND icode.

IF NOT icode[] IS INITIAL.
  SORT icode BY field1 DESCENDING.
  READ TABLE icode WITH KEY field1 = 'Sam'.
  WRITE: / sy-tabix.
ENDIF.

produces this output:

1