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READ REPORT  Syntax Diagram

Short Reference

Syntax

READ REPORT prog INTO itab [MAXIMUM WIDTH INTO wid].

Addition:

... MAXIMUM WIDTH INTO wid

Effect

This statement reads the source code of the program specified in prog from the repository and copies its lines into the internal table itab. The previous content of itab is deleted. If the program cannot be loaded, the content of itab remains unchanged.

prog expects a flat character-like data object, which contains the name of the program to be read; the name is not case-sensitive. The internal table itab must be a standard table without secondary table keys with a character-like row type. When the row length of the internal table is fixed, it must be long enough for the longest program line. Program lines that are too long raise a catchable exception. In the case of the row type string, the length of each row is dictated by the length of the imported program line. An empty program line produces an empty string.

System Fields

sy-subrc Meaning
0 The program was imported.
4 The specified program was not found in the repository.
8 The specified program is a system program protected against read access.

Notes

Addition

... MAXIMUM WIDTH INTO wid

Effect

If the addition MAXIMUM WIDTH is used, the number of characters of the longest imported source code line is assigned to the variable wid (expects the data type i).

Example

After a program is imported into an internal table source, a dedicated line is replaced by different source code from another internal table insertion. After a syntax check, a subroutine pool is generated from the modified program. The required security checks are indicated by comments.

DATA:
   template  TYPE c LENGTH 30,
   generated TYPE c LENGTH 30,
   source TYPE TABLE OF string,
   insertion TYPE TABLE OF string,
   idx       TYPE i,
   mess      TYPE string,
   lin       TYPE i,
   wrd       TYPE string.

template = '...'.

"Authority checks
...

READ REPORT template INTO source.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.
  RETURN.
ENDIF.

"Fill insertion
...

FIND '* insertion' IN TABLE source MATCH LINE idx.
DELETE source INDEX idx.
INSERT LINES OF insertion INTO source INDEX idx.

SYNTAX-CHECK FOR source MESSAGE mess LINE lin WORD wrd
             PROGRAM template.
...

"Security checks
...

GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL source NAME generated.

"Execution
...

Example

See also Program Generation.

Exceptions

Catchable Exceptions

CX_SY_READ_SRC_LINE_TOO_LONG




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