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Access to Internal Tables

When internal tables are read, either the entire table or table body can be accessed, or individual rows.

When individual rows are read, either a work area is used into which the row content is read or from which it is modified, or a row is associated with a field symbol or a data reference variable and these are used to access the row directly.

The table category and the table keys are significant when internal tables are edited:

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