Control Break Statements, explain about them in SAP ABAP.

What are the Control Break Statements, explain about them?.

Control Break Statements, explain about them in SAP ABAP.

Ans :-

Control Break statements: - They are used to control the data flow of an internal table.

Ø  The Control break statements start with AT and ends with ENDAT.

Ø  These statements should be used within the LOOP statements only

Ø  Following are the different types of Control break statements.

·         AT FIRST: - This event is triggered at the first record of an internal table. This is used to display the Header information.

·         AT NEW: - This event is triggered at the first record of each block. This is used to display the individual headings.

·         AT END OF: - This event is triggered at the last record of each block. This is used to display the total/sub totals in the internal table.

·         AT LAST: - This event is triggered at the last record of an internal table.

·         ON CHANGE OF: - It is a special control break statement which can be used outside of the                                loop statement also.

Ø  It is almost similar to AT NEW statement but it doesn't consider the preceding fields.

Ø  It can be used on the multiple fields using SET operators (AND, OR, BETWEEN).