SAP NUMERIC EXPRESSION POSITIONS documentation, setup help and example usage

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Numeric Expression Positions
Numerical expression positions are
reader positions in which numeric data objects , arithmetic expressions , and predefined functions , or functional methods
and method chainings whose return value has a numeric data type , can be specified. The following numeric expression positions exist:

Arguments of functions

Numeric arguments of string functions

Numeric arguments of extremum functions

Counters and positions:

Operand comp of the statement

ASSIGN COMPONENT comp OF STRUCTURE

Operand n of the statement

DO n TIMES

Operand sec of the statement

WAIT UP TO sec SECONDS

Operand num of the statement

SHIFT ... BY num PLACES

Operands bitpos and val of the statement

SET BIT bitpos ... TO val .

Operand bitpos of the statement

GET BIT bitpos ... .

Positions specified in the statements FIND and REPLACE :

Operands off and len of the statements

FIND ... IN SECTION ... OF
REPLACE ... IN SECTION ... OF

Operands lin1 , off1 , lin2 , and off2 of the statements

FIND ... IN TABLE ... FROM lin1 OFFSET off1 TO lin2 OFFSET off2 ...
REPLACE ... IN TABLE ... FROM lin1 OFFSET off1 TO lin2 OFFSET off2 ...

Operands off and len of the statement

REPLACE SECTION OFFSET off LENGTH len OF ...

The row number idx specified with respect to a table index when accessing an internal table in:

READ TABLE itab INDEX idx ...

LOOP AT itab ...FROM idx1 TO idx2 ...

INSERT itab ... INDEX idx ...

INSERT LINES OF jtab FROM idx1 TO idx2 ...

APPEND LINES OF jtab FROM idx1 TO idx2 ...

MODIFY itab INDEX idx ...

DELETE itab INDEX idx ...

DELETE itab FROM idx1 TO idx2 ...

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