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Mastering SAP ABAP
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Mastering SAP ABAP

by Paweł Grześkowiak, Philipp Deth, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
May 2019
Beginner to intermediate
548 pages
12h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Field symbol

A field symbol is an instrument in which applications are created with elasticity. Field symbols do not have any memory; instead, they will be pointing to a memory location. An element can be compared to a pointer from other programming languages. The following code will help you to declare field symbols using different typing methods:

 TYPES: BEGIN OF ts_type,          first_data  TYPE string,          second_data TYPE i,          third_data  TYPE c,        END OF tt_type.  DATA : ls_type TYPE tt_type,        lt_type TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF  tt_type.  FIELD-SYMBOLS: <fs_type1> TYPE c,                <fs_type2> TYPE tt_type,                <fs_type4> TYPE data,                <fs_type5> TYPE any,                <fs_type6> TYPE ANY TABLE,                <fs_type7> LIKE ls_type,                <fs_type8> LIKE LINE OF lt_type.

In order to use a field symbol, we ...

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