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Declaration Positions
Declaration positions are pure writer positions in which a
declaration expression can be specified for an inline declaration . The following declaration positions are possible:

Positions for the inline declaration of variables with DATA(var) . These are the following writer positions , where the operand type can be determined in full and where the content of the operand is completely overwritten but not evaluated.

Left side of an assignment with the assignment operator =

lhs = ...

Actual parameters for output parameters and return values of methods for

standalone method calls :

meth( IMPORTING p1 = a1 p2 = a2...

RECEIVING r = a )

Target fields when catching an exception:

CATCH EXCEPTION INTO oref

CLEANUP INTO oref

Target fields in statements for string processing and byte string processing:

FIND ... MATCH COUNT mcnt
MATCH OFFSET moff
MATCH LENGTH mlen
RESULTS result_tab|result_wa
SUBMATCHES s1 s2 ...

REPLACE ... REPLACEMENT COUNT rcnt
REPLACEMENT OFFSET moff
REPLACEMENT LENGTH mlen
RESULTS result_tab|result_wa


CONCATENATE ... INTO result

SPLIT ... INTO result1 result2 ...
INTO TABLE result_tab

CONVERT TEXT ... INTO SORTABLE CODE hex

GET BIT ... INTO val .

Target fields in statements for time stamps:

GET TIME STAMP time_stamp
CONVERT UTC ... DS:ABAP.CONVERT_UTC INTO DATE dat TIME tim
DS:ABAP.CONVERT_UTC>FRACTIONAL SECONDS fs DAYLIGHT
SAVING TIME dst

CONVERT ... DS:ABAP.CONVERT_INTO_UTC INTO UTC time_stamp


CONVERT TIME STAMP ... INTO DATE dat TIME tim DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst
DS:ABAP.CONVERT_UTC>DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst


CONVERT ... INTO TIME STAMP time_stamp

Target fields in statements for internal tables:

READ TABLE ... [REFERENCE] INTO dobj


LOOP AT ... [REFERENCE] INTO dobj

INSERT ... [REFERENCE] INTO dobj

COLLECT ... [REFERENCE] INTO dobj


APPEND ... [REFERENCE] INTO dobj

MODIFY ... [REFERENCE] INTO dobj

FIND ... IN TABLE MATCH COUNT mcnt
IN TABLE MATCH LINE mlin
IN TABLE MATCH OFFSET moff
IN TABLE MATCH LENGTH mlen
IN TABLE RESULTS result_tab|result_wa
IN TABLE SUBMATCHES s1 s2 ...


REPLACE ... IN TABLE REPLACEMENT COUNT rcnt
IN TABLE REPLACEMENT LINE rlin
IN TABLE REPLACEMENT OFFSET moff
IN TABLE REPLACEMENT LENGTH mlen
IN TABLE RESULTS result_tab|result_wa

Target fields of the statement DESCRIBE :

DESCRIBE FIELD ... TYPE typ [COMPONENTS com] LENGTH ilen DECIMALS dec
OUTPUT-LENGTH olen HELP-ID hlp EDIT MASK mask

DESCRIBE TABLE ... KIND knd LINES lin OCCURS n

DESCRIBE DISTANCE ... INTO dst

Target fields of various GET statements:

GET PARAMETER ... FIELD dobj

GET PF-STATUS status

GET REFERENCE INTO dref

GET RUN TIME FIELD rtime

GET TIME FIELD tim

Work area in statement for dynpros:

LOOP AT SCREEN ... INTO wa

Target field for message output:

MESSAGE ... INTO text
Zielfeld in ABQL

SELECT DS:ABAP.SELECT_INTO_TARGET INTO [TABLE] :dobj

Target fields in file interface statements:

READ DATASET ... LENGTH alen

GET DATASET ... POSITION pos ATTRIBUTES attr

Target field for a serialization:

CALL TRANSFORMATION ... RESULT XML rxml

All writer positions used when generating programs:

GENERATE GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL ... NAME prog error_handling

Positions for the inline declaration of field symbols with FIELD-SYMBOL( fs ) . These are all places where a memory area can be assigned to a field symbol.

Field symbol in the statement ASSIGN :

ASSIGN... TO fs

Field symbols in statements for internal tables:

READ TABLE ... ASSIGNING fs


LOOP AT ... ASSIGNING fs

INSERT ... ASSIGNING fs

COLLECT ... ASSIGNING fs


APPEND ... ASSIGNING fs

MODIFY ... ASSIGNING fs

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