EXPORT, IMPORT - Short Form of Parameter List
ABAP Syntax(Obsolete) EXPORT dobj1
dobj2 ... TO medium [COMPRESSION
{ON|OFF}].
IMPORT dobj1 dobj2 ... FROM
medium [
conversion_options ].
What does it do? If the short form used in the parameter lists of the
EXPORT or
IMPORT statements is
dobj1 dobj2 ...
instead of
p1 = dobj1 p2 = dobj2 ...
or
p1 FROM|TO dobj1 p2 FROM|TO dobj2
the name of the specified data object is implicitly used when the
pararameters in the cluster are stored and searched for.
This short form is possible only outside of classes and also only when
the name does not address an
instance component selector or
offset/length declaration , for
example.
The short form is error-prone since the current names are used as IDs
for the data stored. When clusters are imported in another context, the
names of the exporting context must be known and identically declared.
Latest notes: For the dynamic declaration of the parameter list in an
internal table ptab , the short form outside of classes is still
supported through specification of a one-column table. This is as
obsolete as the static short form.
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