List of tables horizontal space too small

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I have the following issue: I would like to label my tables for part of the document differently, based on subsections. I am using the code renewcommand{thetable}{arabic{section}.arabic{subsection}.arabic{table}} for it. That works fine. But when I create the LOT, the spacing seems off - the caption touches the number of the table to the left for the table with number 10. Is there anything that can be done?
I am also flexible for other solutions than using renewcommand{thetable}{arabic{section}.arabic{subsection}.arabic{table}}, but it works nicely. If I am not mistaken, that is not the problem.
The solution must work with scrreprt.
documentclass[11pt]{scrreprt}
usepackage{caption}
usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
usepackage{setspace}
usepackage[a4paper,showframe=true]{geometry}

begin{document}
    
    listoftables
    
    chapter{Introduction}
    
    renewcommand{thetable}{arabic{section}.arabic{subsection}.arabic{table}}
    
    section{Section}
    subsection{Subsection}
    
    makeatletter
    @whilenumvalue{table}<10do{%
        captionof{table}{This is test table thetable}
    }
    makeatother
    
end{document}

Thanks for any hints.
Edit: I tried listof=flat. It works nicely, but in some cases of longer table headings, it seems to reach a bit too far to the right. Edit: The indentation is wrong using this approach (when the caption reaches over two line, indentation is not right). Therefore this solution is not recommended. Any alternatives?

esdd · Accepted Answer

You can use
DeclareTOCStyleEntry[dynnumwidth]{tocline}{table}

Example:
documentclass{scrreprt}
usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
usepackage{showframe}% to show the page layout
usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text

DeclareTOCStyleEntry[dynnumwidth]{tocline}{table}

begin{document}
listoftables
chapter{Introduction}
renewcommand{thetable}{Alph{section}.arabic{subsection}.arabic{table}}
section{Section}
subsection{Subsection}
captionof{table}{This is test table thetable}
setcounter{table}{9}
captionof{table}{This is test table thetable}
captionof{table}{blindtext}
end{document}

Run three times to get

You could also change the indent:
DeclareTOCStyleEntry[dynnumwidth,indent=0pt]{tocline}{table}

But if you need dynnumwidth,indent=0pt for both figures and tables
DeclareTOCStyleEntries[dynnumwidth,indent=0pt]{tocline}{figure,table}

you could also use class option listof=flat:
documentclass[listof=flat]{scrreprt}
usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
usepackage{showframe}% to show the page layout
usepackage{blindtext}% only for dummy text

begin{document}
listoftables
chapter{Introduction}
renewcommand{thetable}{Alph{section}.arabic{subsection}.arabic{table}}
section{Section}
subsection{Subsection}
captionof{table}{This is test table thetable}
setcounter{table}{9}
captionof{table}{This is test table thetable}
captionof{table}{blindtext}
end{document}

Run three times to get

List of tables horizontal space too small

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