How to get rows count of internal table in abap?

Question

How do I get the row count of an internal table? I guess that I can loop on it. But there must be a saner way.

I don't know if it makes a difference but the code should run on 4.6c version.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394375/how-to-get-rows-count-of-internal-table-in-abap

Answer 1

You can use the following function:

 DESCRIBE TABLE <itab-Name> LINES <variable>

After the call, variable contains the number of rows of the internal table .