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Literal Operator
The literal operator can be used to join two literals (of
the same type) as a single literal. In this way, the definition of one
literal can be extended across multiple program lines. The content of
the resulting literal must match its type and its length must not exceed
the associated maximum length.
The literal operator can be used for the
character literals , but not for
the numeric literals . The syntax
for text field literals and text string literals is:
'...' '...' ... '...'
`...` `...` ... `...`
These categories of literals cannot be mixed.
The literal operator can normally be used to join literals in any
reader position . Exceptions to this
are literals specified dynamically in
parentheses , literals in parenthesized lists separated by commas
(here the only relevant operand position is
WHERE IN ) and literals in embedded
Native SQL .
Notes
As well as for literals, the literal operator can also be used to join
string templates .
Any trailing blanks in text field literals are respected by the literal
operator.
When used for literals, the literal operator must not be
confused with the chaining operator
that can be used in
string expressions to chain
character-like operators. Whereas linking literals with the literal
operator takes place once at the compilation of a program, the chaining
operator executes a genuine operation at runtime and chains any number
of character-like operands. The trailing blanks of operands with fixed
lengths, in particular text field literals, are ignored.
Character literals joined using the literal operator are
subject to the upper limit of 255 characters. Longer character strings
can only be concatenated at runtime, for example, with the
chaining operator .
Example
Constructs an HTML string from subliterals.
DATA html TYPE string.
html =
`<(><<)>html>` <(> <)>
`<(><<)>body>` <(> <)>
`Text` <(> <)>
`<(><<)>/body>` <(> <)>
`<(><<)>/html>`.
cl_abap_browser=>show_html( html_string = html ).
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