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Watch Points

To debug a specific row in a large internal table, you can set a watchpoint for the value of a field in that row. [1] Setting a watchpoint will cause the debugger to stop when the field's value matches the specified condition. [2] For example, to examine the 21st record in a table, set a watchpoint on the material number field for the target value. [3] When the watchpoint is reached, the debugger will stop and the targeted record will be displayed.

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Watch Points

To debug a specific row in a large internal table, you can set a watchpoint for the value of a field in that row. [1] Setting a watchpoint will cause the debugger to stop when the field's value matches the specified condition. [2] For example, to examine the 21st record in a table, set a watchpoint on the material number field for the target value. [3] When the watchpoint is reached, the debugger will stop and the targeted record will be displayed.

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Introduction:

Many times we have large number of rows into an internal table and we need to debug a
particular row say for a particular value of a field which is at 110th row of an internal table, in
this case it is very cumbersome to debug an internal table row by row to reach that particular
row.

To avoid this we can set a watchpoint for the particular value of a field or variable.

As soon as a change is found in the content of the variable after a Debug step and any conditions
set have been met, the Debugger will stop and we see the message "Watchpoint is reached
(<Watchpointvariable>)“.

For example, there are 30 entries into the internal table as shown below. Let us see how can we
analyze the 21st record i.e. material number “000000000000000599”?

Steps:
1.       Set a debugging point at the loop statement of the internal table, once the debugging screen
appears then press F5, an entry would appear in the workarea “LS_MARA”.

2.       Now keep the cursor on the field to which we want to set the watchpoint. In this example we
want to set watchpoint for the LS_MARA-MATNR.

3.       Press Create watchpoint button on the toolbar of the debugger screen as below.
4.       We will automatically have the variable field populated with the desired field as shown
below.

5.       Now enter the condition for which we want to set the watchpoint in the Free Condition Entry
Field.
6.       We want to set watchpoint against material number 000000000000000599, so we entered
value LS_MARA-MATNR = 000000000000000599 in above highlighted field “Free
Condition Entry”.
7.       The watchpoint will be created and we will have below message appeared in the status bar.

8.       Now press F7 to reach your desired record. We will get below message at the status bar of
the debugger screen:

9.       Now we will have the LS_MARA-MATNR = 000000000000000599 value in the workarea.
We can analyze the contents of the workarea for this material number directly, without
looking at all records in the internal table.  
So in this way, we can set maximum 5 watchpoints.

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