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Meshes in ABAP Release 7.40, SP05
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The meshes (introduced in ABAP_RELEASE 7.40 SP05) are special structures whose components are internal tables, which can be linked to each other using mesh associations. Mesh associations are evaluated by specifying mesh paths in suitable expressions and statements.

ABAP_MODIFICATION_NN Data Types for Meshes

Mesh types can be created using the following new variant of the TYPES statement: TYPES BEGIN OF MESH
...
TYPES snode ... ASSOCIATION _assoc
TO tnode ON tcomp1 = scomp1 $[AND ...$].
...
TYPES END OF MESH
Meshes are instances of these types and can be used in suitable expressions and statements.

ABAP_MODIFICATION_NN Processing Meshes

These relationships (defined using mesh associations) between mesh nodes in a mesh can be evaluated in mesh paths. These mesh paths can be used in the following expressions and statements:
... mesh_path ...
LOOP AT mesh_path
FOR ... IN mesh_path
INSERT ... INTO ... mesh_path
MODIFY ... mesh_path
DELETE ... mesh_path
SET ASSOCIATION mesh_path