SSTMNT SAP (Description of an ABAP/4 Source Analysis Statement) Structure details
Description: Description of an ABAP/4 Source Analysis Statement
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
SSTMNT is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "Description of an ABAP/4 Source Analysis Statement" Information within sap ABAP programs.
This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.
i.e. DATA: wa_SSTMNT TYPE SSTMNT.
The SSTMNT table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Description of an ABAP/4 Source Analysis Statement data available in SAP. These include STRUC (Index of current block in the struc table), FROM (Index of first token of statement in token table), TO (Index of last token of statement in token table), NUMBER (Statement counter within source code unit).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .
Delivery Class:Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Not classified
SAP SSTMNT structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary
Field | Description | Data Element | Data Type | length (Dec) | Check table | Conversion Routine | Domain Name | MemoryID | SHLP |
LEVEL | Index of current source code unit in level table | STMNT_LEVL | INT4 | 10 | SABP_INT4 | ||||
STRUC | Index of current block in the struc table | STMNT_STRU | INT4 | 10 | SABP_INT4 | ||||
FROM | Index of first token of statement in token table | STMNT_FROM | INT4 | 10 | SABP_INT4 | ||||
TO | Index of last token of statement in token table | STMNT_TO | INT4 | 10 | SABP_INT4 | ||||
NUMBER | Statement counter within source code unit | STMNT_NR | INT4 | 10 | SABP_INT4 | ||||
COLONROW | Line number of colon (for chain statements) | STMNT_CROW | INT4 | 10 | SABP_INT4 | ||||
TROW | Line number of end ID (>= 1) | STMNT_TROW | INT4 | 10 | SABP_INT4 | ||||
COLONCOL | Column position of colon (for chain statements) (>= 0) | STMNT_CCOL | INT2 | 5 | SABP_INT2 | ||||
TCOL | Column position of end ID (>= 0) | STMNT_TCOL | INT2 | 5 | SABP_INT2 | ||||
PREFIXLEN | Number of tokens before colon (for chain statements) | STMNT_PLEN | INT2 | 5 | SABP_INT2 | ||||
TYPE | Type of statement (EXEC SQL, INCLUDE, macro, ..., rest) | STMNT_TYPE | CHAR | 1 | SYCHAR01 | ||||
TERMINATOR | End ID of a statement (period or comma) | STMNT_TERM | CHAR | 1 | SYCHAR01 | ||||
ENHMT | Enhancement Index | 0 |
Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure SSTMNT using ABAP code?
As SSTMNT is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on SSTMNT as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table SSTMNT
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about SSTMNT and the data within it using relevant transactions such asSE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).
Search for further information about these or an SAP related objects