Sorting Internal Tables in ABAP - Stable sort

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Created on Thursday, 15 November 2012 08:37

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Stable Sort

The option

SORT <itab> ... STABLE.

allows you to perform a stable sort, that is, the relative sequence of lines that are unchanged by the sort is not changed. If you do not use the STABLE option, the sort sequence is not preserved. If you sort a table several times by the same key, the sequence of the table entries will change in each sort. However, a stable sort takes longer than an unstable sort.

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