ABAP COMPUTE STRING Statement syntax, information and example SAP source code

string_exp - String Expressions

Short Reference

ABAP Syntax ... { |string_template|
}
| { operand1 operand2 [
operand3 ... ] } ... .

What does it do? A string expression formulates an operation (calculation) with character-like operands. The result of a string expression is a character string. A string expression consists of
precisely one string template |string_template| or

two or more operands operand1 , operand2 ..., concatenated as a character string using the string operator , where one of the operands can itself be a string template.
String expressions can occur in the reader positions of certain statements , in particular on the right side of an assignment with the assignment operator = .
Latest notes: The program DEMO_EXPRESSIONS
shows examples of how to use string expressions.
String expressions and
arithmetic expressions can not be mixed. Arithmetic expressions can also be listed as embedded expressions of string templates . In addition, the formatting options
of embedded expressions or string functions
in operand positions can contain arithmetic expressions as arguments.
In non-Unicode programs, string templates are not possible. Here, string expressions are limited to joins with
.