REFRESH

Short Reference

Syntax

REFRESH itab.

Effect

This statement sets an internal table itab to its initial value, meaning that it deletes all rows of the internal table. The memory space required for the table is freed up to the initial memory size INITIAL SIZE. For itab, you must specify an internal table.

To delete all rows and free the entire memory space occupied by rows, you can use the statement FREE.

Note

The statement REFRESH itab acts for all internal tables like CLEAR itab[]. If an internal table itab has a header line, then the table body and not the header line is initialized. If the internal table itab has no header line, REFRESH itab acts like CLEAR itab. Therefore, you should always use CLEAR instead of REFRESH.

Exceptions

Non-Catchable Exceptions

• Cause: No more memory space available to create the table
  Runtime Error: REFRESH_NO_SHORT_MEMORY